THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN MAYOR TOGETHER WITH THE REPORTS OF THE CITY OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910 To which ore added the Commercial Statistics of the Port, Reports of Public Institutions, and Ordinances Passed During the Year MM. Ga, SAVANNAH. GA.; COMMERCIAL LITHOGRAPH & PHISTISG Co. INDEX Page Aldermen ._ .-..._--...-.---......._----._--.-.-.. 5 Assessments for Taxation at Savannah, Ga................. 400 Associated CharitiesReport of--.--.-..---.-.---.---.---. 350-393 Bank Clearings at Savannah for Fifteen Years (insert)___. 396 Bank Clearings at Savannah, Ga., in comparison with neighboring cities (insert)_...-._.................... 396 Bacteriological LaboratoryFour Views (insert) ....... 249 Board of Sanitary CommissionersReport of.....--.---.... 209-247 Bonaventure CemeteryMortuary Report of.__.-----.... 299 Board of Tax AssessorsReport of...._ -.-...--..-..... 32-33 Budget for 1911--..............-...-...-.......-.-...-- 11-12 Building InspectorReport of-..----..------.----------. 31 Charity HospitalReport of__-L....................... 313-314 Chief of PoliceReport of_.------...------.----.-..... 35-73 City AttorneyReport of____---_.-_----_--._.___-.._-_ 304-307 City BacteriologistReport of.---.-.--.-.----.-...--..-. 249-265 City DispensaryReport of.......---...---.-...----..... 271-277 City EngineerReport of..__------_-----.__---.-_.._-- 159-208 City MarshalReport of.............................. 25-30 City Officers, 1911 and 1912.............................. 9-10 City PhysiciansReport of... ........................ 266-270 City TreasurerReport of...._--.__.___.____.___._______ 117-129 Clerk of the MarketReport of--.__.................... 304-307 Commissions, 1911 and 1912............................. 8 Communications to Council in 1910.-....-----...---....-. 537-556 Corporation Attorney.....--....---.-..- .._____.____ 304-7 Department of Public WorksReport of. --.-.--.----..-.-- 139-158 Dispensary _._---_--_--_--.-_------._-----__---_-_-._- 271 Domestic Exports of Sea Island Cotton, Cottonseed Meal, Cotton Seed and Staves.....-...---..._.--.---.. 401 Electric Inspectors' Report..-------_-...----._-----...-. 110 Exports of Lumber (insert).--..---------.-----.-..---.-- 400 Exports of Rosin (insert)__......._................._ 398 Exports of Spirits Turpentine (insert)_----_-__.---___._- 400 Exports Upland Cotton (insert)...-----..-----..-----...- 398 Exports to Foreign Countries for 1910 and for the twenty years preceding.___-.-_-------..-__--___. 402 Exports Sea Island Cotton and Cotton By-Products........ 401 Fire Alarm TelegraphReport of.-_..-------.------.... 113-115 Fire DepartmentReport.of._--..--..-----..---.----.. 81-115 Fire Inspectors' Report......-......-._...-._........ 111-112 Georgia InfirmaryReport of__..---..-.---.-....._-_.. 317-318 Harbor MasterReport of__.._..___..._____ 302-303 Health OfficerReport of......._______ ...........__ 209-247 Inspector of Buildings..--------------------------- -- 31 Inspector of PlumbingReport of.----------------------- 278-279 Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten__--------------------- 344-357 Laurel Grove CemeteryMortuary Report of.------------- 298 Mayors' Annual Message. ...-.-_----------.----.-.-- 13-22 Mayor and Aldermen.--.-------------------------------- 5 Ordinances passed in 1910-.----------------------------- 403-510 Park and Tree CommissionReport of _.___----------- 281-297 Park View SanitariumReport of.------..--------------- 315-316 Police Department-.---.-.----------------------------- 35-73 Public Institutions.. .--.-----.-------.--------------- 309-393 Public LibraryReport of---.--------------.-------.---- 319-343 Public Works.-------.-.---------.------------------- 139-158 RecorderReport of.__.-.--..-..--..._.--..-.--..--. 74-79 Resolutions Adopted in 1010..--..-.-..._-.----.--------- 511-535 Sanitary Commissioners.-.---_________________________ 209-247 Savannah's Climate.-..--_---_._-_-_-_------------.----- 402 Savannah Hospital ----_--------.-------. ..i.......... 318a Savannah's Traffic and Transportation Facilities____ _ _ _ _ _ 397-398 Sinking FundReport of___--------------------------- 23-24 Standing Committees of Council for 1911 and 1912___.-.- 6-7 St. Joseph's HospitalReport of...---.-.--------..--.... 311-312 Statistics of the City of Savannah______________________ 395-402 Tax Rate------- ---.-------------------_---.------ 400 Tax .Assessors-----.---.:------------------------.._ 32-33 Water Works DepartmentReport of___-.--.------...- 131-138 MAYOR AND ALDERMEN FOR 1911 AND 1912 Mayor GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN Chairman of Council W. F. McCAULEY Vice-Chairman of Council H. S. MEINHARD CRAIG BARROW F. C. BATTEY J. H. H. ENTELMAN J. B. GAUDRY H. B. GRIMSHAW J. F. SULLIVAN Aldermen R. M. HULL H. L. KAYTON W. F. MCCAULEY H. S. MEINHARD M. J. O'LEARY C. G. WlLKIN'SOX 11 I 44 STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL FOR 1911 AND 1912 Accounts ALDERMEN O'LEARY, KAYTON, HULL Assessments ALDERMEN GRIMSHAW, BARROW, MCCAULEY, BATTEY, KAYTON City Lots and Opening Streets ALDERMAN ENTELMAN, MCCAULEY, BARROW, HULL, GRIMSHAW Drainage ALDERMEN KAYTON, O'LEARY, GAUDRY Finance ALDERMEN MCCAULEY, ENTELMAN, KAYTON, BATTEY GRIMSHAW Fire ALDERMEN HULL, WILKINSON, ENTELMAN, BARROW, SULLIVAN Harbor and Wharves ALDERMEN WILKINSON, GRIMSHAW, HULL Market ALDERMEN GAUDRY, SULLIVAN, BARROW Police ALDERMEN BATTEY, GAUDRY, WILKINSOX, MEINHARD, O'LEARY Standing Committees of Council for 1911-1912Continued Public Health ALDERMEN BARROW, GAUDRY, O'LEARY Streets and Lanes ALDERMEN SULLIVAN, MEINHARD, ENTELMAN, MCCAULEY, BATTEY Water ALDERMEN MEINHARD, HULL, GRIMSHAW, ENTELMAN, WILK.INSON Near-Beer Licenses ALDERMEN BATTEY, MEINHARD, SULLIVAN Sanitary Board HON. GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Chairman HEALTH OFFICER W. F. BRUNNER, Secretary ALDERMEN MCCAULEY, BARROW CITIZENS J. M. SOLOMONS, DR. JABEZ JONES, BEIRNE GORDON COMMISSIONS, 1911 AND 1912 Park and Tree P. D. DAFFIN, Chairman T. H. MCMILLAN CHAS. S. ELLIS S. E. THEUS I. A. SOLOMONS Sinking Fund GEO. J. MILLS, Chairman CHAS. G. BELL, Secretary E. W. BELL L. ADLER Jo*1 * LYONS PilotagesJAS. M. BARNARD, Chairman GEO. P. WALKER W. W. WILLIAMSOX VAN B. A VERY JOSEPH HULL J. FLORANCE MINIS E. A. ARMAND, Secretary Massie School HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN ALDERMAN W. F. MCCAULEY DR. H. W. HESSE CITY OFFICERS, 1911 AND 1912 Mayor............. ....................................... .......GEO. W. TIEDEMAN Secretary to the Mayor......................................NEYLE COLQUITT Clerk of Council....................................................N. P. CORISH Assistant Clerk of Council..........................CHAS. V.. HERNANDEZ Bacteriologist.................................................DR. V. H. BASSETT Chief of Police.......... ................. ................... ........W. G. AUSTIN City Treasurer.........................................................C. S. HARDEE City Engineer........................................................J. W. HOWARD City Engineer (Assistant).......................... .W. O'D. ROCKWELL City Attorney........................................................H. E. WILSON City Attorney (Assistant)..................................._.D. C. BARROW City Marshal....................................................FRED WESSBLS, JR. City Marshal (Deputy).................................. ....WILKIE BROWN City Physicians (2 white)....J. E. MORRISON AND R. V. HARRIS City Physicians (2 colored)..........C, P. TYSON AND P. E. LOVE Clerk of the Market................................................ALEX MENDEL Clerk of the Market (Assistant)................................T. E. WHITE Director of Public Works........................... ....HARRY WILLINK Harbor Master............................................................JOHN CARR Health Officer.......................................................W. F. BRUNNER Chief Sanitary Inspector................................HENRY G. GREENE Food Inspector......................................................SIMON A. WEIL Inspectors of Naval StoresLEWIS BLISS, R. B. JEWETT, W. R. POWELL, J. E. REGISTER, J. C. REGISTER, J. F. BLISS, JAS. T. WELLS, NAT. HARRISON AND C. R. SHOUSE. Inspector of Buildings.............................................H. BARTLETT Keeper Evergreen Cemetery.........................J. T. McCoRMiCK Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery.......................-A.. B. LA ROCHE Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery (colored)..........HENRY WILLIS Keeper City Dispensary....:.......................................J. D. HARMS Port Warden...............................................................FRED HULL Plumbing Inspector....................................................A. ROBIDER Recorder............................................................JOHN E. SCHWARZ l-A City Officers, 1911 and 1912Continued Superintendent Scavenger Department............THOMAS COOLEY Superintendent Fire Departinent............THOMAS BALLANTYNE Superintendent Fire Department (Assistant)....}. J. CONNALLY Superintendent Waterworks.....................................J. P. FIGG Tax Assessors, Chairman.......................................H. S. DREESE Tax Assessors (2)............A. B. PALMER AND C. H. KONEMAX.V Custodian City Hall..........................................R. W: FERGUSOX Clerk Police Department............................ ........J. E. MAGUIRE BUDGET FOR 1911 Ordinance read in Council for the fiist time December 14, 1010, read a second time December 28, 1!U(), amended, placed upon its passage, adopted and approved: By Committee of the Whole BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 1911 Fixed Expenses for the Year 1911 Interest on bonded debt-_-----------------_----__..$ 122,000 00 Sinking fund...-.--...--.--,.-..-..-.-.......-.... 35,000 00 $ 157,000 00 Maintenance of Regular City Departments Departments Appropriation Bacteriological Laboratory. .........................^ 7,315 00 Board of Health_ .....'........................... 20,000 00 Cemetery (Evergreen)....................... ....... 5,000 00 Cemetery (Laurel Grove)-..--.--...-.-...-.-......... 5,000 00 Charity.-.-......-.......-.-...-.-...-....... .... 5,000 00 Citv clocks_...................................... 400 00 City Hall.............. ............................ 5,260 00 City lighting............. ......................... 32,800 00 Dispensary__................................... 4,000 00 Drainage and dry culture.--.-.----.-------...--.-.. 9,000 00 Fire Department and uniforms...-._-...-..._...... 117,000 00 Harbor and wharves.__............................ 2,579 00 Hospitals, white, including Georgia Infirmarv.---.-...- 13,500 00 Hospitals, colored_......---.----.-.-..."........... 900 00 House drainage....-......-...-.---.-.---.-.-......- 5,000 00 Incidentals (including office charity) _.___...._.. ...... 5,000 00 Law Department (incidentals)__................... 600 00 Market-...____________.._.____..._.._..___...._._ 6,000 00 Notes and interest (opening streets)...-..----...-...- 31,631 Ifl Notes and interest (park purposes)... -.--.....-.-.-.. 12,643 50 Notes and interest (paving streets).-.._.-...-.-.--..- 75,304 52 Notes and interest .-...-.-.---.---...----.-...I.--- 6,735 5)5 Notes and interest (Gamewell Fire Alarm and Tel. Co.). 1,925 00 Opening new streets___.......................... 1,000 00 Pensions (police and firemen)_ -,,.....-.-..,..-..._ 6,000 00 Policeand uniforms...--..---------.-.--....---.... 131,000 00 Police reserves (military)....-_.................... 3,250 00 Printing and stationery__-..----...---.....-...... 4,000 00 Plumbing inspector-_.-.._--.------.-----...----... 1,765 00 Parks and squares___............................. 12,000 00 Public Library (white)__.......................... 5,600 00 Public Library (colored),-.-------.-------.----.-- 360 00 Sewers_____....__...-....._-.....-........... 2,500 00 Sewers (stormEast Broad street)................... 1,000 00 Budget for 1910Continued Salaries..-----_________...--..--..-__.__$ 52,000 00 Scavenger____................... ................ 51,00000 Scavenger (Electric Railwav contract)..... .. ....... 8,000 00 Sink Department (O. E. M.')--.-...... ................ 5,500 00 Streets and lanes.......................... --.-.... 82,500 00 Streets and lanes, resurfacing (gravel and shell).. .... - 5,000 00 Waterworks (old and new)..----......... ........._ 60,000 00 Waterworks (meters)............................... 3,190 00 Waterworks (notes and interest; mains in Norwood tract) 1,345 92 Industrial Farm................................... 3,000 00 Total...... ...................................t 812,595 08 New Improvements to be Made in 1911 to be passed on by Council before Expenditure Advertising fund...................................$ 10,000 00 Auto fire engine.................................... 6,500 00 City Hall (repairs to roof)........................... 750 00 E>aflSnPark-....--................................ 1,000 00 Grading new streets._..-..-.-.-.-..-............. 1,000 00 Henry street subway............................... 17,000 00 Laurel Grove Cemetary (improvement to walks). ...... 2,500 00 Market.-.----...-............-.......--.......... 20,000 00 Paving streets..................................... 50,000 00 Sidewalks__..................................... 2,500 00 Tree planting-.._................................ 2,000 00 Waterworks extension and improvements.------------ 8,000 00 Waterworks compresser iron platform................ 2.000 00 Total___.....................................$ 123,250 00 Total budget for year 1911_.-...--......-.-.--$1,092,845 08 ANNUAL REPORT OF HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN MAYOR OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Fourth Annual Message of Geo. W. Tiedeman Mayor of Savannah SAVANXAH, GA., January 23, 1911. To THE HOXORAISLE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF SAVAXXAH: GENTLEMEN :I have the honor to submit this, my fourth annual report, covering some of the operations of this administration for the year 19.10 and embodying some policies and recommendations I deem it wise to adopt. The personnel of the Board has not changed very materially during the past two years and, despite the death of two of our members and the declination to serve of two others, a majority of the old members of the Board still remain with us. In fact, there are on the Board now, five of the original members who were elected with me four years ago. We have with us also four new members, recently elected, and I think it appropriate, therefore, that my annual message be read at this time to both the retiring and the newly elected Board, comprising as it does references to matters of past and future importance. In previous messages I have epitomized the more important accomplishments of the administration during that period. I shall here briefly mention some of the accomplishments of the administration during the past year, which matters will be enlarged upon and dealt with in detail in the reports of the heads of the several municipal departments. As but a limited number of the most extensive improvements have their inception and completion in the same year. 16 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT it is necessary, even in a brief resume, to refer to some of the matters included in previous reports. Extensive Improvements During the year the city's portion of the work to be done on the tracts owned by the Chatham Land & Hotel Company and the Ardsley Park Land Corporation has practically been c6mpleted, marking the conclusion of one of the most important and most extensive developments of its kind ever undertaken by the city. The wisdom of the undertaking is being more generally realized and with every passing day will become more manifest. As forecast in my message prior to the inauguration of the work, the increase in taxes, on a lot basis over the former acreage basis, will pay a splendid percentage on the work done, and this interest will be earned during the years that the notes, bearing no interest, are running. In other words, the city is drawing interest without having invested a cent. From year to year the taxable value of this property will enhance, and, as new structures are built and the property otherwise improved, it will be but a comparatively short time before the city will be reimbursed for every cent spent on the developments. I have, heretofore, in special message, fully explained the terms and operation of these contracts and will, therefore, not further enlarge on the subject at this time. In this connection, however, I wish to mention the construction of the system of storm sewers designed for draining these properties, covering, south of Estill avenue, 350 acres, and a great portion of the contiguous territory. In addition to the large storm sewer running across the southern end of this territory, sewers have been constructed on Price, East Broad, Reynolds, Atlantic, Paulson and Harmon streets, north of Estill avenue. These sewers are demonstrating their value not only as conduits for the discharge of storm water during rains, but in dry weather the seepage of ground water into them has so lowered the underground water level as to dry out this section to a marked degree. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Need of Drainage In August, last, Savannah was visited by an extraordinary precipitation of rain, over eight and a half inches falling in twenty-four hours. Various parts of the city, including Springfield plantation and the southeastern section, were flooded, and the sewers were in many instances incapable of discharging the water rapidly enough. This, however, was an unusual instance, and it cannot be hoped, nor is it feasible, to construct a system which will under such extraordinary circumstances, discharge the rain water as rapidly as it falls. But the circumstance served to direct the attention of city and county to the condition existing, and a joint committee on drainage was appointed by the city and county to investigate conditions; which committee, after three months' labor, rendered a report. It is estimated that if the plan suggested by the committee is carried out, the work in the eastern and southeastern sections will cost about $259,000, which amount, however, would be materially lessened if convict labor were used. A portion of the work contemplated is outside of the city limits. The committee also made recommendations as to the necessary work in the- western and southwestern sections of the city, the cost to depend on the character and extent of the work decided on. This area is occupied largely by factories and it is most important that an efficient drainage system be installed and every encouragement given to the location of new industries and the improvement of conditions surrounding existing ones. I would, therefore, recommend and urge that special attention be given at once to the matter of drainage on the east and west sides of the city, and the improvement of the Bilbo canal. I have heretofore reviewed at length the necessity for the completion of the city's house-drainage system and I shall not say more at this time than that I urge most strongly an issue of bonds for the consummation of this much-needed work; and recommend that, without delay, the people be advised of the exact scope and object of the issue and that a IS MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT special election be held for the purpose of authorizing such an issue. For Entire City I desire to stress with the strongest language at my command the imperative necessity for prompt action in connection with the east and west side storm drainage, for I believe that this matter and the completion of the house-drainage system so as to cover the entire city is of more paramount importance than any other matters to demand your attention; and if, during your incumbency, you accomplish these things for the people of Savannah you will have done them a lasting service, even though you do nothing else. My experience as Mayor of our city for four years, and my observations during the recent campaign have absolutely convinced me that efficient officers and employes of the city should be protected from the political upheavals that we have usually every two years, and thereby be enabled to give better service to the community, which, of course, would benefit the city at large. My deliberate judgment is that an acceptable form of Commission Government would largely improve these conditions and at a later date I want the authority from Council to appoint a non-partisan committee of citizensno officer or employe of the administration to be eligiblewhose duty it shall be to investigate what form is best adapted to our people, and. after determining thereon, let the measure be submitted to the qualified voters of our city at an election . called for that special purpose. During the year the proposed contract between the city and the A. C. L. Railroad Company for the erection of the Henry street subway was entered into, and the work on the subway has been commenced. In addition thereto, work will be commenced during the year on a subway or bridge at MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 19 Habersham and Thirty-seventh streets, and the streets across the tracks of the A. C. L. will be opened at grade. Street Paving The amount of street paving done during the past year far exceeds that of any previous year, and during the last four years of this administration more street paving has been done than in any previous six years. Among the streets that were paved during the past year are West Broad, Thirtyseventh, East Jones, Fortieth, Estill avenue, Barnard, Paulsen, Harmon, and portions of Montgomery, President, Perry, Hull, Harris, Macon, Waldburg, Forty-first and Hall. The work to complete the paving of Barnard street and Abercorn street, from Bay to Fortieth street and from Bay to Estill avenue, respectively, has been begun; Henry street is also being paved, so that when it is completed there will be a paved boulevard from Laurel Grove Cemetery to Waters' road; Bay street is being paved from Barnard to Fahm streets, and West Broad street from Broughton to Liberty streets, completing the paving of West Broad street from Bay to Fortieth. Not including work now under way, there was paved during 1910, 8.8 miles of streets, aggregating 1,459,791 square feet. The city has also during the year repaired all of the slips and public docks and all are now in good condition; a new city map, which has been badly needed for five years, has been printed, as well as also a commercial map for the use of business men and the Trade Bodies; the extension of the water system, begun in previous years of this administration, has been continued; Bonaventure Cemetery has been enlarged, developed and improveda new water tank, engine and water mains being installed and a retaining wall built along the bluff; Baffin Park has been given attention, the approaches and center mall being graded and trees planted; storm sewers have been extended where needed and the whole system of street lighting has been rehabilitated by the in- 20 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT stallation of a new type of more brilliant lights in every section of the city. The necessary money was appropriated for the completion of the long-contemplated monument to General Oglethorpe, which beautiful work of art now adorns our main thoroughfare. Funds for the installation of a Children's Department at the Public Library were appropriated and additional money was given for the enlargement and increased efficiency of the other rapidly-expanding departments of the library. The Milk 'Ordinance Splendid results have been obtained from the enactment and enforcement of the milk ordinance. As an instance of this, 1 need only say that I learn from the reports of the Health Officers that, whereas during the first month's enforcement of the law only forty per cent of the milk was clean, ninety per cent of it is now clean and pure. The Bacteriological Laboratory has proven a most efficient and important adjunct to the Health Department and is indispensable in connection with the proper enforcement of the milk ordinance. The Fire Department has recently purchased an automobile fire engine. There is no doubt in my mind that the day is not far distant when the motor will displace the horse in all up-to-date fire departments, and I commend to your consideration the advisability of taking steps to secure, as soon as you can with the funds at your disposal, additional equipment-of this character. The city has spent nearly $10,000 for sidewalks, and, as rapidly as we can do so without placing too much of a burden upon our property owners, should enforce the laying of sidewalks in those streets where they are needed. I brought this matter to your attention in my last message and I trust that, with due regard to the property owners, you will prosecute this matter vigorously during the present year. MAYOR'S ANXUAL REPORT 21 On August 25, 1905, a previous administration adopted an ordinance which prohibits the use of skates on any of the streets or sidewalks of the city, except the center walk in the park extension, upon which, however, skates with metal rollers may not be used; the effect of the ordinance being to debar the use of skates with metal rollers on any of the streets or sidewalks of the city. Recently the skating craze has been revived and hundreds of children and older folk find recreation, exercise and enjoyment in skating, particularly in and around the park extension. Complaint was made to me by the Chairman of the Park and Tree Commission, the contractor who laid the concrete walks around the park extension, and other citizens, that the steel rollers were injuring the concrete walks and were being used in violation of existing ordinance. I, therefore, advised the Chief of Police to issue, the necessary orders for the enforcement of the ordinance. f am advised that practically as much damage can be done with the wooden rollers and that they are far less desirable and durable than steel rollers, and I am convinced that, as the park extension is Savannah's principal play-ground and as so much benefit accrues to the children from this form of out-door exercise, the injury done to the pavements is more than off-set by the benefits derived. Furthermore, I feel that Council should give ear to the wishes of the people whom it serves and there is no doubt in my mind that public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of letting the children skate in the park and park extension and letting the city foot the bill for repairing such damage as is done to the walks. I, would, therefore, recommend the immediate amendment of the ordinance so as to permit the use of steel roller skates on the walks in and around Forsyth Park and Park Extension, for, otherwise I shall be constrained to enforce it in its present form. The offer made by the city during the year to appropriate $10,000 for advertising Savannah, provided at least an equal amount was raised among the citizens at large, has been accepted and the required amount has been raised. The S50,000 i, 22 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT f ' ____________________________ I. " appropriated by the city is now available and our citizens deserve to be commended upon their splendid response to the offer, a large part of the amount being forthcoming without K solicitation. Greater Savannah ] A "Greater Savannah" movement has been projected; and now, after a political campagin just finished, as we are ' about to enter upon the duties of a two-years' administration of the city's afairs, let us turn our backs to the campaign through which we have passed, and face the future confident and resolute. I believe that Savannah is about to enter upon an era of unprecedented prosperity. Let us bend every effort and strain every nerve for a greater, healthier, busier, more beautiful and more populous Savannah, and let us all work . together and so demean ourselves that when we lay down the cares of office we may do so with the satisfying consciousness of duty faithfully performed. I wish to thank the retiring members of the Board for their co-operation and support in the adminstration of the city's affairs during the past four years. F/ach one of them has co-operated with me to the fullest extent and has been zealous, efficient and faithful. It is with profound regret that I chronicle the death of two of our number during the year. Alderman Abram Vetsburg died at the very beginning of the year and Alderman Michael J. Kavanaugh just at its close, and both were taken from us without our being prepared for the shock. They were faithful and efficient public officers, men universally popular and friends we shall miss. I am glad that we have with us still five members of the Board elected four years ago, and seven of chose elected two years ago. I am also delighted to welcome into our official family the four newly-elected members of the Board, and I trust that all of you will be long spared to your city's service. Respectful!}" submitted, GEO.'W. TIEDEMAN. Mavor. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 23 REPORT OF SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS SAVAXXAH, GA., December 31, 1910 To His HONOR, GEO. W. TIEDEMAX, Mayor City of Savannah, SIR:The Sinking Fund Commissioners respectfully submit their Thirty-second Annual Report. t With funds at our disposal we have purchased bonds of the issue of 1909 as follows: 1910. ' February 5..........$ 0,000 at 108K-.-- $ (5,510.00 May " 17........ 0,000 at 108K and interest (5,587.07 August 2....... 6,000 at 108X-..................... 0,495.00 November 3.......... 7,000 at 108^ and interest 7,059.75 $25,000 $27,252.42 Issue of 1909.......................................................... .....$2,483,000.00 Less purchased as above.......................................... 25,000.00 Outstanding December 31, 1910, this issue............$2,458,000.00 We have purchased issue of 1883 as follows: 1910. January 5..........$5,000 at 102 and interest...... $5,102.78 February 4.."........ 1,000 at 102^.......................... 1,027.50 $6,000 $0,130.28 $145,650 previously purchased.. $149,592.25 .$151,650 $155,727.53 Signed and made available for exchange.............. $390,000.00 Less in exchange, as per last report.................... 388,700.00 City Treasurer, for exchange................... .... . $1,300.00 24 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Of these bonds issued $100,550 have been canceled as follows: Special purchases.. .. . . . $ 14,900.00 Purchased out of Sinking F_- .. . .... ...... 151,650.00 166,550.00 Which leaves outstanding of this issue. ....... $222,150.00' This issue at last Report.... ...... ................ .....$ 228,150.00 Less purchased in 1910.... ........ . ..... .. .......... 6,000.00 222,150.00 N'o\v outstanding issue of 1909....... .......... ..... ...$2,458,000.00 Total debt December 31, 1910.. ..... ..............$2,680,150.00 Respectfully submitted, GEO. J. MILLS CHARLES G. BELL EDWARD W. BELL LEOPOLD ADLER Sinking Fund Commissioners. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT REPORT OF THE CITY MARSHAL SAVANNAH, GA., January 25, 1911. HON. GEOROE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, Savannah, Ga., DEAR SIR:I have the honor to submit my annual report for the year 1910, same being my fourth under your administr,ation. The collections in this office from all sources amounted to $62,506.33, of which $62,408.18 have been paid to the City Treasurer and $98.15 to the Park and Tree Commission. This is a substantial gain over last year. Ground RentsAll lots reported to this office by the City Treasurer have been re-entered for arrears of rent as required by ordinance, and the East Part of Ground Rent lot No. 10, New Franklin Ward was sold on November 1st, 1910, as per resolution of Council passed September 7th, 1910. Real Estate ExecutionsThis item again contributes the largest amount in our schedule of collections for the year, showing a total income from this source of $30,758.75. In this are executions dating back to 1897, which we have collected and adjusted to the satisfaction of the city and the property owners. Specific TaxFrom this source we are pleased to report that we collected during the year $11,330.75, which represents a most pronounced gain over the last year and ranks with one of the best reports of revenue from this source in the records of the office. 26 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT Personal PropertyWe are gratified that we can again report an improvement in this item, one of the hardest and most difficult propositions with which we have to deal. Our collections show that we received during the year $4,655.41. Much annoyance, time and expense could be avoided by adopting a system to make the tax returns more certain and reliable, as many names appear on the tax returns, and executions for double tax are issued against persons who have removed from this City. City MarketWhile this property is now almost exclusix'ely in the hands of the Market Clerk, this office having charge of a few of the market vaults or basement stores, we received from this property the sum of $1,990.00. The income from this property could be increased if its physicial conditions was in better shape and it presented a more inviting and attractive appearance, as we find it difficult to hold tenants for any length of time. In our last report we stressed the necessity of a new city map, one which would show the sections in the extended limits of the city and from which we could locate the property against which we hold executions (some of it from the time that the city made its last extension of territory). As it now stands we are unable to locate with a degree of certainty property in the new area that has been taken in the limits by the city, which would warrant our levying and selling same. During the year we have taken plats and subdivision maps of the extended limits and by enlisting the co-operation of some old residents in the sections referred to, have been able to locate the owners or the parties at interest in the property, some of whom have moved from the city, and through this method have disposed of quite a number of executions. MYAOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 27 If the city would establish a record room in which to keep records of subdivisions made from time to time by land corporations and syndicates in territory adjacent to the city, but not now in its limits, it would in a very short while prove of great value and could be used to advantage by the various departments of the city, in enabling them to locate the property. We encounter some trouble in the collection of bills for repairing sidewalks and cleansing privy vaults, due in most part to the lapse of time between the time the work was done by the Department of Public Works and the transmission of the bill to the Treasurer and then to this office. It often happens that the property where the work was done was sold before the execution therefor is placed in this office, and when we find out that the property has changed hands the facts as to who should pay it causes much trouble in collecting the account, as it becomes a matter of dispute between the former and the present owners. Outside of executions in litigation a large reduction of outstanding accounts have been eliminated by collection. We have further improved our accounting methods and have found it a great time and labor-saving system and believe that it will compare favorably with any like department of any city. The statement in detail follows. Respectfully submitted, FRED WESSELS, JR. City Marshal. I I '! : I 28 MAYOR'S AN'XUAL REPORT t CITY MARSHAL'S OFFICE Itemized Statement of Collections from this Office for the Year Ending December 31, 1910 Real Estate: 1897.................................... S 14.50 1898.................................... 14.50 1899.................................... 14.50 1900.................................. 14.50 , 1901............................. 14.50 1902.................................... 313.4(5 190:3................................ WO. 15 1904.................................... 300.15 1905.-.-.....-.-......... 38.52 190f>.................................... 101.37 1907................................ 1,877.04 1908............................. 9,143.56 1909.................. 18,572.82 1910--......................... 39.18 $30,758.75 Personal Property: 1908............................... $ 393.09 1909.................................... 975.81 1910............................... 3,286.51 S 4,655.41 Specific Tax: 190S......................... $ 75.00 1909.................................... 991.75 1910.................................... 10,264.00 $11,330.75 $46,744.91 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT Paving Streets: Abercorn Street..._........_...1907............ $ 378.62 Abercorn Street._.........1908............ 100.00 Barnard Street..................l910............ 49.78 Bay Street Lane................l909............ 58.10 Broughton Street, East....l909............ 210.83 Bull Street..,.......................1907.'.......... 147.35 Bull Street........................-1909............ (5.69 Cohen Street......................l909............ 168.08 Cuyler Street......................l909............ 512.62 East Broad Street............l910............ 541.66 Gordon Street, East.........l909............ 79.37 Gordon Street....................l910............ 333.87 Gwinnett Street, East.....1906............ 110.00 Harmon Street..................1910............ 132.66 Harris Street, West.......... 1910............ 1.00 Hull Street, West..............l909............ 351.24 Jones Street, East............l909............ 1,140.07 Macon Street......................l910............ 38.21 Montgomery Street..........l910......... 253.31 McDonough Street, East 1908............ 480.57 Ogeechee Road..................l909............ 79.00 Price Street........................l906............ 226.44 Randolph Street................l909............ 695.08 Taylor Street..._.................1909............ 54.11 36th Street, West..............l910.......... 57.13 37th Street, West..............1910............ 269.06 40th Street, West.__.........1908..~....... 145.00 40th Street, West..............l909............ 30.00 40th Street, West..............l910........... 10.00 Waldburg Street, East....l910............ 100.00 Wayne Street....................l910............ 353.82 West Broad Street...,........1907........... 274.00 York Street.......................1907............ 90.79 York Street Lane..............l909............ 67.85 $ 7,546.37 30 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT Sidewalks: 1905....... $ 0.02 1906.................. 70.00 i 1907............. 20.74 1 1908............. 54.87 'J 1909................ 366.00 | 1910....../......... 141.70 $ 065.93 ! Privy Vaults: j 1907.... $ 18.48 1 1908.. 17.60 i 1909............................. 228.15 j 1910........ 87.95 1 1907, 1908 and 1909........ 1,594.50 $ 1,946.08 Fees................................................... $ 1,243.66 : Advertising........ 91.00 Interest.......__..................................... 1,144.20 $ 2,478.86 I Rents: i Market Vaults.............$ 1,990.00 i Houses 63.00 $ 2,053.00 i Ground Rent Lots....._.... $ 675.45 J Ground Rent.-................ 227.94 J Re-Entry................._... 1.00 , Interest........_..................................... 14.77 Tax for 1910........................... 13.90 Incidentals.__............._..... 39.37 $ 972.43 TotaL_.._...-......-.. $62,408.18 Bonaventure Cemetarv................_. $ 98.15 Grand Total..__....................................... $62,506.33 Respectfully submitted, FRED WESSELS, JR., Citv Marshal. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 31 REPORT OF THE BUILDING INSPECTOR SAVANNAH, GA., January 9. 1911. HON. GEO. W. TIEDF.MAN, Mayor, SIR:I beg to make my report for the year 1910. Number of permits issued in I910.__............................ 347 Number of permits brought over from 1909............. 31 Number of permits for building operations in 1910.. 380 Number of permits carried over from 1910 to 191 i.. 36 Number of permits used in U'iO................................. 344 The building operations for the year were as follows: Finished 3-story brick or concrete buildings.............. 4 Finished 2-story brick or concrete buildings............ 13 Finished 1-story brick or concrete buildings.............. 14 Finished 2-story frame buildings................................. 110 Finished 1-story frame buildings._........................... 137 Number of buildings completed in 191,0._.............. 28* Number of alterations, additions, etc., completed in 1910.................................................................. 177401 Cost of all improvements finished in 1910, $703,420.00. Respectfully, H. BARTLETT, Building Inspector. 32 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT REPORT OF BOARD OF TAX ASSESSORS SAVANNAH, GA., December 31, 1310. Hox. GKORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayoi, DEAR SIR:-- We herewith submit the Annual Roport of the Board of Tax Assessors for the year ending December 31. 1910. Returns of personal property: Stock in trade........... .................. ............................. $ 2,149,837 Goods on consignment............................................... 90,452 Furniture, etc. ................._.............................. 979,940 Jewelry, silver, etc......__......................................... 109,273 Musical instruments............................................... 52,210 Libraries, paintings,'etc.._..................................... 45,508 Horses, mules, live stock._... _................................ ] 1(>.G07 Vehicles, automobiles, motorcycles......................... 208,800 Money and solvent accounts............. ................... 2,300,188 Stocks and bonds....................................................... 566,900 Promissory notes...__................................................ 125,880 Mortgages on real estate........................................ 203,780 Mortgages on notes.__.._.._......................................... 43,700 Bonds for titles.__................................................. 7,500 Shipping.-................................................................. 119,290 Machinery and fixtures.... ........................................ 231,967 Banks.............-.....!....................... 4,546,400 Other personal property.......................................... 21,550 Coipotations. ................... ...................................... 2,186,678 TotaL......__........................................................ $14,166,460 During the year there were 349 building permits issued, the improvements amounting to___.......... $456,810 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 33 The books containing the new improvements and assessments are now open, in our office, for inspection. The taxable property of the City of Savannah is as follows: Real estate................................................................... $35,681,456 Personal property..................................................... 14,166,460 TotaL.......................... ................................. ... $49,847,916 J909 1910 Real estate....................................... $35,501,860 $35,681,456 Personal property............................. $13,188,015 $14,166,460 Totals..................................... $48,689,875 $49,847,916 Total for 1910$49,847,916.00 at $1.39................. $692,886.03 Total for 1909$48,689,875.00 at $1.39............ .... $676,789.26 Respectfully submitted, HARRY S. DREESE, Chairman A. B. PALMER C. H. KONEMANN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE FOR THE YEAR 1910 W. G. AUSTIN CHIEF OF POLICE 36 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT Mayor GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN Police Committee O. AKTHUR GORDON, Chairman FRANK C. B.VTTEY JULIUS B. GAUDRY Chief of Police WILLIAM G. AUSTIN* Lieutenants of Police THOMAS C. MURPHY MARVIN L. MELDRIM Chief Detective JOHN J. MURPHY MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 37 REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1911. To THE HONORABLE THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OP SAVANNAH. GENTLEMEN:I have the honor to submit herewith my Fourth Annual Report of the Police Department for the year ending December 31, 1910, together with such suggestions and recommendations as, in my judgment, would benefit the Department. Arrests There were 9,965 arrests during the year, an increase of 1,213 over the number of arrests made during the previous year. This increase is partly due to the increase in the force, the extension of the territory patrolled and to the steady increase in the population of the city. Disturbances No outbreak of a serious nature has occurred during the year. The Fourth of July on which the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight occurred, passed off in a very quiet manner, while the disorder attendant upon the usual Christmas Eve celebration was more conspicious by its absence than wete the unusually quiet celebrations of the two preceeding years. Injuries On October 17th, Patrolman C. W. Keller while in the act of mounting his horse, leceived a kick from the horse 38 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT which broke his arm. The horse upon which Patrolman O. B. Morris was riding on December 16th, slipped arid fell on Patrolman Morris' leg, breaking it just about the instep. Other tlian these, no injuries of a serious nature occurred duri<\sr *he year. ; Assaults Patrolman Fiank V. Hansen while attempting to make an arrest on the night of April 26th was shot by a negro. Judge Jones. Patrolman Hansen died from the effects of the wound on June 7th following. While holding a witness to the shooting of Patrolman Hansen, Hugo Gleiber, a white citizen, was assaulted and cut by Ed. Williams. When pursued by Patrolman J. D. Longabaugh. the negro, Williams, turned upon him and cut him in the face. (Williams was captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to serve a term of five years.) Patrolman O. P. Cantey was assualted and severely cut by a negro whom he had under arrest as a suspicious character and was taking to the box to send in a call for the patrol wagon. Deaths Former Superintendent of Police Owen F. Reilly, who was appointed a member of the force on November 1st, 1875, and retired on pension on January 26th, 1903, died from natural causes on May 7th, 1910. Patrolman Frank V. Hansen died on June 7th from the effects of a wound received on April 26th while in the act of making an arrest. Solomon Johnson, colored, who after serving thirty years as a groom was retired on a pension January 1st, 1906, died on Februarv Sth, 1910. t MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 39 A page in this report is dedicated to the memory of each of these men. Statistics For the convenience of those interested in Police matters, a tabulated scatement of the operations of this department for the year is included in this report. Roster A complete roster of the Department as of December 31st, 1910. is included in this report. The changes during the yearpromotions, appointments, resignations, retirements, dismissals, etc.are also recorded. The number of men shown in this report, 95, was the average maintained for the year. Recorder This Department stands indebted to the Recorder for his valuable assistance during the year. His jusc and impartial disposition of the many complicated cases presented to his court has been of incalculable benefit to this Department and has done much to elevate the Police Court in the eyes of the entire community. Public Gaming Houses It affords me much pleasure to be able to repeat my report of the last three years, viz: There is not a single public gaming establishment running in this city. Discipline No member of the Department .was guilty of any serious violation of the rules or regulations of the Department during the year. The discipline of the force is better than ever and I feel sure there will be no retrogression in that respect. II 40 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT Taken as a body, the members have proven themselves loyal to the Department by their ready performance of many hours of extra duty; especially was this so during the Automobile Races, the Oglethorpe Unveiling exercises and the Christmas Eve celebration, when double duty was required of every man. A spirit of good feeling towards each other prevails amongst the men and while giving to their superior officers all the respect due them, every man endeavors to cooperate with them in the work, and the maintenance, on a high plane, of the Department. J now desire to thank the various members of the Department for their efficient services to the city and to assure them of my appreciation of their ever-ready willingness to perform extra duty. Detective Department This Department, in charge of Chief Detective John J. Murphy, is composed of five men. The members have performed their duties in a satisfactory manner. Finances A decrease in expenditures for the year 1910, as compared with the proceeding year, amounting to $1,524.84 is shown. The low price of grain during the year accounts in part for the decrease in. expenditures. As information, the statement of expenditures for the year embodies an expense statement for the year 1909, from which comparisons may be drawn. Feed Bills The feed bill for the year shows a decrease of $508.38 as compared with the proceeding year. The total amount expended during the year being $4,273.40, an average cost per head for 42 horses of $8.46 per month. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 41 Promotions and Appointments During the year five promotions were made: Joseph McCool from Second to First Lieutenant; Thos. C. Murphy from Third to Second Lieutenant; M. L. Meldrim from First Sergeant to Third Lieutenant; Daniel J. Cronin from Sergeant to First Sergeant and John J". Reilley from Patrolman to Sergeant. Dismissals Eight members of the Department have been dismissed during the year for infractions of the rules and regulations, and for the general good of the service. Resignations One First Lieutenant, eighteen Patrolmen and one Patrol Wagon Driver resigned from the Department during the year. Assistance of Mayor, Police Committee and Council I wish to assure His Honor, the Mayor, of my appreciation of his courteous treatment of me and to thank him for the assistance which he gave me in the conduct of the Department. To the Police Commit cee I stand indebted for many valuable suggestions and for the assistance which they were ever ready to tender me. I wish to thank each and every member of Council for the trust and confidence reposed in me during the year, which I hope the coming years will serve to strengthen. Gamewell System It affords me pleasure to report that during the year. 2-A i i H 42 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT the new Gamewell System was put in operation. This system for which an appropriation was made after I had repeatedly called to the attention of Council the deplorable condition of the old one, has rendered excellent service during the year and I consider that the expenditure made for it was a most wise one. RECOMMENDATIONS Modern Stables In my reports of 1907, 1908 and 1909, I recommended that a modern stable be erected. With each succeeding year; the need of a new stable becomes more urgent. The building now in use is inadequate for present requirements, and is not only unsanitary, but peculiarly unsafe in the event of a fire. Only a very small amount has been spent on chis building during the past four years, for such repairs as were absolutely necessary; unless a new building is erected within a very short time it will be necessary to spend quite a large amount to p'ut the present building in serviceable condition. I urgently recommend that a sufficient sum be appropriated by Council to erect a modern stable that will properly house the various ambulances, patrol wagons, vehicles and horses of the Department. I am sure that this is the most unsightly, unsafe and unsanitary public building in the city. It was erected in 1859, over fifty years ago. It will therefore be readily understood that it has outlived its usefulness. Station House I wish to call to the attention of Council the fact that the Station House now in use does not answer the requirements of this Department. It is entirely too small, making it necessary on Saturday nights and Sundays to put as many as six prisoners in one of the small cells; this congestion is unhealthy and for this reason alone a new station house MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT should be erected immediately. The building with its old style of plumbing and ventilation is unsanitary. It is, frequently necessary to detain white women and children; .no provision is made for handling them properly. It is manifestly improper that such persons should be forced to mingle in the Station House with confirmed criminals, drunkards and other violators of the laws and ordinances. Summer Uniforms I wish again to call to your attention the matter of summer uniforms for the members of the Department. During the four summers that I have filled the position of Chief of Police, it has been often brought to my attention that the present uniform consisting of a helmet, heavy blue trousers, and closely buttoned blouse, with linen collars, is not the proper uniform for police officers in this climate. I therefore earnestly recommend that a change in the uniform of the policemen of this city be made, and I respectfully suggest that the summer uniform be composed of lightweight flannel trousers, olive drab in color, and that a lightweight flannel shirt of the same material be worn instead of the closely-buttoned blouse. I am quite sure that this combination would look business-like, and would most certainly make the men of .this Department far more comfortable during the long hot period. Motor Patrol Wagon . I recommend the immediate purchase of a Motor Patrol Wagon to take the place of the present horse-drawn patrol. The wagon now in use has been in constant service for three and a half years and has outlived its usefulness. For the past several months the cost for repairs to this wagon have been unusually heavy and any effort to keep it in further constant service will burden the city with an avoidable expense. 44 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT I do not consider that it is necessary for me to point out to you the many advantages of a motor-propelled patrol over those drawn by the horse. Plan for Change in Salaries While serving as Chief of Police during the past four years, I have been impressed with the fact that the present pay of the members of the police force is inadequate. The prevailing high prices of food-stuffs, clothing, rentals, and the actual necessities of life, make it clear to even the casual observer that the members of the Police Department are not paid a salary sufficient to enable them to provide a proper livelihood for themselves and their families. Some members of the Department have been forced into debt, and others have resigned to cake positions paying better salaries. Of the 124 members of the Police Department, .106 are married men, some having large families dependent upon them. I believe that every member of the Department tries to meet his just indebtedness; but, in spite of this fact, merchants are sometimes compelled to request the assistance of the Police Committee in collecting outstanding accounts. Many members of the Police Department have rendered to the City of Savannah faithful and efficient service for a number of years. It is a well-established custom of successful employes to recognize faithful service by a substantial increase of salary from year to year, and employees who have conscientiously and efficiently discharged the duties assigned them expect such an increase. After giving the matter careful thought, I have decided to recommend that the following plan be put into effect in the Police Department: 1. That new appointees on the force be put on probation. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 45 for six months, and be paid~a salary of sixty dollars per month while on probation. If, at the end of six months, these probationers have, in the judgment of the Police Committee and the Chief of Police, proved capable of filling a position on the force, they shall be assigned to a position as regular patrolmen, at the present pay of seventy-five dollars per month. Based on fifteen new appointments per year, this would effect a total saving to the city of approximately $1.350.00. (The above estimate is based upon the statistics for the past five years, the vacancies caused by deaths, resignations, dismissals and retirements, requiring the appointment of about fifteen men each year.) 2. That all members now on the Police Force, who have served faithfully, efficiently, and continuously for a period of five years, shall receive an increase of fifty dollars a year, and shall receive an increase of fifty dollars for each additional five years of faithful, efficient, and continuous service. (a) That all members now on the Police Force, who have served faithfully, efficiently, and continuously for a period of ten years, shall receive an increase of one hundred dollars a year and shall receive an increase of fifty dollars for each additional five years of faithful, efficient, and continuous service. (b) That all members now on the Police Force, who have served faithfully, efficiently, and continuously for a period of fifteen years, shall receive an increase of one hundred and fifty dollars a year, and shall receive an increase of fifty dollars for each additional five years of faithful, efficient, and continuous service. (c) That all members now on the Police Force, who have served faithfully, efficiently, and continuously for a period of twenty years, shall receive an increase of two hun- ( 46 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT dred dollars a year, and shall receive an increase of fifty dollars for each additional five years of faithful, efficient, and continuous service. (d) That all members now on the Police Force, who 1 have served faithfully, efficiently, and continuously for a period of twenty-five years, shall receive an increase of two hundred and. fifty dollars a year, and shall receive an increase ' of fifty dollars for each additional five years of faithful, effi- ; cient, and continuous service. t (e) That all members now on the Police Force, who have served faithfully, efficiently, and continuously for a period of thirty years, shall receive an increase of three hunI dred dollars a year, and shall receive an increase of fifty i dollars for each additional five years of faithful, efficient, and 1 continuous service. i. At the age of sixty-five, retirement shall be compulsory, ' upon the then one-half pay that the patrolman is receiving. If, in the judgment of the Police Committee and the Chief of Police, any member is deserving of ictirement for cause i before the age of sixty-five has been reached, he shall, at ;t their discretion, be retired on pay to be determined at that i time by Council. '! By reference to the actual records of the Department it | is found that: i i Thirteen members of the Department would profit by an increase of pay under the five years' provision. ' Twelve members of the Department would profit by an i, increase of pay under the ten years' provision. '' . .i. Seven members of the Department would profit by an fr . increase of pay under the fifteen years" provision. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Six members of the Department would profit by an increase of pay under the twenty years' provision. Three members of the Department would profit by an increase x>f pay under the twenty-five years' provision. The total cost of these increases would aggregate $4,850.00, from which must be deducted the $1,350.00 saving from the suggested probation feature as above, making the net cost of the plan to the city approximately $3,500.00. It is hardly necessary to point out that such a recognition of faithful, efficient and continuous service would be of inestimable benefit in affording inducements to capable and intelligent young men to seek positions on the Police Force; and the increased pay and recognition of services would serve as a strong incentive to the members of the force to perform their duties in the most capable manner possible. Very respectfully, W. G. AUSTIN, Chief of Police. I 48 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Number of Officers, Sergeants, Detectives, Patrolmen and Attaches of the Police Department, December 31, 1910, and Salaries of Each. 1 Chief._..... ........ ...... ... .. ........... ..................... $2,600.00 1 1 First Lieutenar.t._ ...... ...................................... 1,500.00 , 1 Second Lieutenant............ .................................. 1,400.00 1 Third Lieutenant.................................................. 1,400.00 1 Chief Detective.-. ........................................... 1,500.00 ; 5 Detectives, each.......................... _ ............. ..... ),100.00 "' ' 1 First Sergeant............ ...................................... 1,200.00 8 Sergeants, each................................................. 1,120.00 1 Quartermaster........... ............................................. 1,000.00 95 Patrolmen, each........................ ........................... 900.00 j. 1 Clerk Police Court........ ...................................... 1,200.00 i I 1 Clerk Police Department....................................... 1,200.00 1 ' 1 Electrician (one-half salary).................................. 750.00 2 Patrol Drivers, each......................................... 840.00 i 1 Ambulance Driver................................................ 840.00 ! ' 1 Stable Keeper.................................................... 960.00 1 Night Stable Keeper............................................. 000.00 1 Porter.................................................... .......... ..... 300.00 | . 124 Total ! i 'j Retired '*>. I : 2 Sergeants, eack.................................................... $746.66 ! ' 4 Sergeants, eack..._./............................................ 560.00 ' 1 Private........................... ................................. 300.00 1 . 7 Total MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 49 Roster of the Force, December 31,1910 NAME RANK NATIVITY DATE APPOINTED W.G.Austin..-.., J. McCooL..... T. C. Murphy...., M. L. Meldrim.... J. J. Murphy... T. P. Sandiford... J. E. Maguire__... T. R. Heffeman... D. J. Cronin ...... H. W, Baughn.... ". S. Hallfoid... . J. Dieignan ..... . D. Semken _.. . H. Lange______. .C. Bell......... .Parrell-.-...... .. J. Reilley- _ P. J. Eivers_.... J. ft. W. Umbach. C. T. Christie..... E. D. Fallon...... C. 8. Cowart...... P. T. Kelly........ Akin, J. M..-._... Alexander, E. D... Barber, T. D...... Becker, W. L...... Beach, J.K....... Beach, G. E._... Chief....... 1st Lieut.--. 2nd Lieut... 3rd Lieut. _. Chief Detective Electrician . Clerk....... Clerk....... 1st Sergt.... Sergeant... Texas. ..... Ireland..... Georgia Georgia England.... Georgia _ .. So. Carolina Bentley. J. F...... Best, C. D.__.... Blumberg, L....... Brant, R. F....... Brennan, T._.... Burns, Chas.... Bumett, C. B...... Byrd, E. L..... Cameron, T. J.. . . . Cantey, O. P Clancy, J. J....... Clear^, t. F... Cohen, M. G.... Collins, M. N...._ .Georgia _ ._" 'Ireland_- So. Carolina So. Carolina Ireland_._ Germany... Germany. .. Georgia .... 'England. ... 'Georgia ...- Detective.--'Ireland..-.. Germany... Georgia .._- Georgia _.. Georgia -... Qr. faster.. Georgia .... Patrolman __ Georgia .... Ohio------- R. I._--.. So. Carolina So. Carolina So. Carolina Georgia .... Georgia .... No. Carolina Poland_.. So. Carolina Georgia _ ._ Georgia _ .. Tennessee _ Georgia .. Georgia _ .. So. Carolina Georgia _ .- Georgia .... New York.- Georgia ..__ Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Jan. 22, 1907 Sept. 24,1891 Aug. 22, 1890 Feb. 14, 1896 Nov. 20, 1897 Mch. 29, Nov. 28, Feb. 4, Dec. 10 Sept. 29, Sept. 13, Feb. 6, Feb. 4, Oct. 9, Tan. 31, Jan. 3, Oct. 25, Jan. 27, Jan. 31, Oct. 1, Aug. 10, Oct. 9, Jan. 26, Dec. 18, Feb. 8, Mch. 24, July 24, Feb. 28, Feb. 27, Apr. 12, Jan. 31, Nov. 3, Feb. 4. uly 5, an. 31, uly 23, an. 5, une 17, Nov. 3, July 23, Oct. 8, Aug. 3, July 23, Dec. 11, 1909 1908 1907 1887 1881 1894 1894 1896 1897 1907 1895 1901 1890 1907 1890 1906 1900 1891 1907 1907 1910 1891 1902 1909 1907 1907 1899 1896 1907 1907 1903 1910 1908 1910 1909 1900 1902 1902 1904 50 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Roster of the ForceContinued NAME Cordray, J. A.... .- Counihan, M. J._ .- Crosby, W. F ...... Davis, E. F. _ ... Davis, R. T.-.-.-- DeLeon, J. P.... .. Dominick, A. M. .. Doolev, R. F.-- ... Ellis. T. H. ....... Evans, W. O._. ... Fahev, P. T- ------ Flahertv, f . E..... Fleming, W". H..._ Flynn, C. J.. ..... Forehand, R. A. .- Goslee, M...._. ... Grubbs, C. B...-.- Harlev H. ...-- Harlev, R. H...... Harper, J. G. ..... Hayes, R. J.. - . - - - Hicks, L._. .-..-.- Hodges, W. F. .... Hosti, H.. ........ Hutson. H. C...... Ivi>v A Keane, T... ....... Kearnev, F. J. . ... Kellar, 'C. W. ..... Kemp, H. H. ..... Kilian, J. G. ------ Leech, C. F.. ..... Lively, G. P....... Long, C. R. ___ .- Longabaugh, J. D. Lovett, R. F. __ McAcy.J. A..._ .- McAlpin, T. ..... McCarthy, J. C. McGrath, f. __ .. McGrath, J. H..... Malphus, C. M..._. Merchant, R. E.... Milliken, James .. . RANK Patrolman.. -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- -- NATIVITY So. Carolina Georgia _ .. Georgia _ .. So. Carolina Ireland . Austria _____ Georgia .... Georgia .... Georgia .... So. Carolina Georgia __.. Virginia.... So. Carolina So. Carolina Florida __ . Georgia __._ Ohio.. __ . Georgia .... Georgia .... Georgia _ _. Georgia .... So. Carolina Georgia __.. Georgia _-.- H O 35 37 38 fi9 56 38 40 OQ >3 30 9Q 34 45 38 38 4? ?fi 38 31 40 ?5 35 38 30 30 29 35 49 4ft 1Q 30 30 oc ?7 25 31 57 ?f> 39 34 31 24 50 31 23 'MARRIED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No YPS Yes YPS Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes DATE APPOINTED S ily 5, 1907 ch. 8, 1907 Feb. 8, 1907 Aug. 18, 1881 Jan. 10, 1890 Aug. 7, 1909 Feb. 27, 1909 Apr. 16, 1910 June 9, 1910 June 27, 1910 Apr. 16, 1910 J uly 22, 1909 uly 3, 1906 une 7, 1908 uly 5, 1907 Apr. 12, 1907 Nov. 7, 1908 Mch. 29, 1905 Oct. 15, 1907 Jan. 16, 1900 Nov. 3, 1910 Nov. 3, 1910 Mch. 24, 1910 Jan. 15, 1910 Dec. 2, 190S Oct. 1, 1906 Feb. , 1907 Sept . 7, 1898 Apr. 12, 1907 Apr. 12, 1907 Nov. 20. 1908 Feb. 27, 1909 Jan. 31, 1907 Jan. 5, 1910 Mch. 24, 1910 Dec. 3, 1906 Feb. 8, 1907 Nov. 26, 1910 Mch. 13, 1902 July 2, 1900 July 21, 1902 Mch. 24, 1910 Nov. 29, 1902 June 9, 1910 June 9, 1910 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 51 Roster of the ForceContinued NAME Mitchell, W. R. ... Morgan. L. P...... Morris. O. B. ___ Morse, W. J. ...-.- Nantz, L. H. ... Newton, E. L. ..... O'Neil, T. G. ... O'Reilly, J. J..___. Osterholz, C. E.... Ouzts, J. E... __ . Price, H. L. .... Pryor. W. A. ...... Quarterman, T. A. Remley, D. D. ... Rowse, J. A. .-.-. Schafer, V. P.. ... Sheehan Wm. .... Sherrod, M. H...._ Stephenson, C. E. . Stewart, W. H. ... Swift, F. S._ ...1- Walton, E. M. _ - Weber, J. A. L. ... Winn. W. S. -.. Williams, E. L. ... Kelly, John..... .. Barthebness, J. B._ McGinley, J. J. .... Rottenberg, J. .... Hennessy, J. W. .. Fraser, W. C. (c)_. RANK Patrolman. _ _ Stbl. Keeper Amb. Driver Stbl. Keeper Porter .___._ NATIVITY So. Carolina Georgia .... So. Carolina Georgia .... No. Carolina Georgia -.-. New York.. So. Carolina So. Carolina So. Carolina Georgia .. Georgia .-.. Germany- .. So. Carolina Georgia .... Georgia .. Georgia _ Virginia. .-- No. Carolina Georgia _ .. Georgia .... Georgia Bulgaria- ... Georgia .... So. Carolina Georgia _ .. Georgia ..._ Georgia .... Georgia ..._ Georgia _ _. W O < 32 32 24 30 38 32 33 28 28 34 33 27 38 44 34 31 36 54 35 38 38 26 38 39 50 38a? 38 39 64 34 32 38 51 26 .MARRIED Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes DATE APPOINTED Dec. 19, 1907 Jan. 31, 1907 Jan. 10, 1910 Feb. 27. 1909 Feb. 19, 1907 Apr. 12, 1907 Dec. 5, 1907 Nov. 19, 1908 Nov. 3, 1910 Nov . 3, 1910 Sept. 25, 1907 Jan. 5, 1910 Oct. 9. 1907 Mch. 16, 1901 Apr. 12, 1907 Dec. 2, 1908 June 9, 1910 Dec. 1, 1882 Oct. 18, 1907 Dec. 12, 1907 June 9, 1910 Oct. 9, 1907 Mch. 24, 1910 Aug. 19, 1908 Apr. 11. 1889 Nov. 3, 1910 Feb. 27, 1909 Dec. 8, 1896 Oct. 14, 1910 Aug. 31, 1907 Feb. 9, 1907 Sept. 23, 1909 Nov. 3, 1910 Sept. 1 1909 July 3, 1907 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT OBITUARY IN MEMORY OF SUPERINTENDENT OWEN F. REILLY Appointed to the Force November 1,1875 Appointed Superintendent April 3,1901 Retired January 26,1903 Died May 7,1910 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT 53 OBITUARY IN MEMORY OF PATROLMAN FRANK V. HANSEN Appointed to the Force February 27,1909 Shot on April 26,1910, while in the Act of Making an Arrest Died June 7,1910 r-l MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT OBITUARY IN MEMORY OF SOLOMON JOHNSON, (col.) GROOM Appointed January 1,1876 Retired January 1,1906 Died February 8,1910 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 55 CHANGES IN DEPARTMENT DURING 1910 Promoted Jos. McCool.................................................>.^.__.First Lieutenant Thos. C. Murphy..............................................Second Lieutenant M. L. Meldrim....................................................Third Lieutenant Daniel J. Cronin......................................................First Sergeant John J. Reilley............................................................. ....Sergeant Appointed C. B. Burnett................................................................Patrolman H. L. Bumell......:........................................................ H. E. Hiers..................................................................... H. HostL-....-............................................................... C. R. Long..................................................................... J. J. McLeod................................................................. ". J. J. McStay.......................... ......................................... O. B. Morris..................................................................... W. A. Pryor.-...................-..---.-.-... ....... H. L. Purvis.................................................................... C. F. Stevenson._........_................................................... C. A. Vetter, Jr............................................................ T. D. Barber................................................................... W. F. Hodges.-........................................................,:..... J. D. Longabaugh_....................................................... J. H. McGrath................................................................. J. J. Sullivan.................................................................... C. H. Zace...................................................................... E. B. Stein.-................................................................. R. F. Dooley........................................................... P. J. Fahey................................................................ A. W. Moffitt.-.-......................................................... W. F. Calhoun......._..................................................... 56 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT T. H. Ellis._..................................................................Patrolman R. E. Merchant.............................................................. James Milliken............................................................... " W. J. Murry...................................................................... P. L. Sawyer.................. .......................................^........ " V. F. Schafer................ ................................................ C. E. Stephenson............................................................ W. O. Evans.............................. ................................... E. L. Williams................................................................ T. J. Cameron..._........................................................... R. J. Hayes.......... ................................................ ...... L. Hicks.......................................................................... C. E. Osterholz._............................................................ J. E. Ouzts..................................................................... G. L. Smith...................................................................... E. M. Walton. ................................................................ J. Rottenberg. .......................... ................Patrol Wagon Driver Resigned S. N. Harris.. ............. ..... ................ .............First Lieutenant M. C. Gallaher.................................................................Patrolman B. S. Bryant.................................................................... J. Guilfoyle.... ........................... .................................... H. L. Purvis... ................................................................ C. F. Stevenson.............................................................. E. B. Stein.................................................:..................... H. L. Burnell................................................................... W. T. Stewart................................................................. B. L. Tullis................................................................... C. H. Zace....... ............................................................... W. J. Murry................................................................... P. L. Sawyer................................................................ H. Jones.......... .............. ............................................ W. F. Calhoun.................................................................. P. H. Moehrke.................................................................. A. W. Moffitt.............. .................................................... C. A. Vetter, Jr. ........................................................... MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 57 H. S. Airs...................................................................Patrolman T. J. Fogarty................................................Patrol Wagon Driver Dismissed H. E. Hiers.-.............................................................. ..Patrolman W. B. Brooks.... ............................................................. W. E. Remley._.............................................................. C. H. Kelly...................................................................... J. J. McLeodL................................................................... J. J. McStay................................................................... G. L. Smith._................................................................... W. E. Garrard.................................................................. Died Owen F. Reilly..........................................................Retired Chief Frank V. Hansen............................................................Patrolrnan Solomon Johnson, (col.)................. ....................Retired Groom 5S MAYORS AN'XUAL REPORT Number of Days Lost by Each Member of the. Department on Account Sickness, Injured on Duty, Sickness in Family, Special Leave, Vacation, or Suspended, During 1910 NAME \V. G. Austin ............ J. McCooI.... . - T, C. Murphv. ......... . . M. L. Mcldri'm ....... f. J. Murphv... . .. . . T. R. Heffeman .... .. . . D. J. Cronin.... . .... H. W. Baughn . . . . . . . . J. S Hallford. ... . . . .. J. D. Semken... ........ J. C. Bell... ..... ... - J. J. Farrell. . . . ....... 1. J. Reillev. .... ....... P. J. Elvers.... ........ J. H. W. Umbach.. ...-.- C. T. Christie-... ........ E. D. Fallon....... C. S. Cowart. ------ ...... P. J. Kellv.... .......... Akin, J. M. __ ... ....... Barber, T. D. .......... Becker, W. L., . . Beach, J. K.. .......... .. Beach, G. E.... . ... - Bell, C. L.. Bentley, J. F..... ...... .. Best, C. D. ....... ... Blumberg, L. ........ .- Brant, R. F..... ..... .. Brennan. T.._. ......... Burns, C..-.. ......... .. Burnett, C. B. ........... Byrd, E. L... ........... Cantev, O. P....... Clancv, J. J........ . .... Clearv, T. F........ Cohen, M. G... ..... .... Sickness .> > 83 7 17 13 4 1 3 j :>,=> l l 11 34 8 3 1 3 fi 110 12 c o z >> .23 c ..... 25 ----- 3 13 Sickness inFamily 1 3 >) 1 1 3 3 4 4 3 1 1 2 4 o *%%3 a? 14 1 1 6 4 6 1 1 3 4 2 ! o 1 1 1 4 Vacation 15 8 10 10 ----- 5 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 7 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Suspended 1 5 "3 +> o 29 11 11 13 o 83 19 28 23 20 11 17 21 10 1 7 10 10 10 7 17 25 13 16 a. 10 40 2148- 13 21 17 13 10 15 8 20 124 1 ft 13 35 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Number of Days Lost, Etc.Continued NAME Collins, M. N. ..... ..... Crosby, W. P.. ............ Cameron, T.J.. .......... Davis, E. F...... ...... . Davis, R. T, _ ...... .... DeLeon, J. P..... ........ Dooley, R. F. ...... Ellis, T. H.. ....... ....... Evans, W. O... ..... Forehand. R. A.. ........ Fahey, P.J. __ ......... Flaherty, T. E........... Fleming, W. H....... .... Flynn, C. J... ........... Goslee, M... ....... . . . ... Grubbs, C. B.. ........... Harley, H. E.. ........... Harlev, R. H.. ... . Harper, J. G. ........ Hayes, R. T.. ............ Hicks. L... .............. Hodges. W. F. ........... Hosti, H. ............... Hutson, H. C ........... Keane, T.. .............. Relief, C. W. ........... Kemp, H. H.. ............. Killian, J. O.. ............ Leech, C.F.. ............ Lively, G. P. ..---....... Long, C. R.---.. ........ Lovett, R. P.... ......... Lysaught, D. . .... .... McAcy, J. A............. MeAlpin, T. B.. ___ ..... McCarthy, J. C..... ..... McGrath, I........ ...... McGrath, T. H. .......... Malphus, C. M...... ... Merchant, R. E._... .... Sickness o 1 21 ?a 7 3 3 > 7 13 1 3 16 2 8 7 8 13 3 9 2 1 o 1 1 19 4 12 o T3 >> Oi *> b * -SO G 1 1 > 1 75 14 Sickness inFamily > 8 o 1 1 3 4 2 1 1 1 4 1 1 3 o 2 3 1 0 V U) ^ 4 16 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 4 8 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 9 2 1 1 > t Vacation 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Suspended 1 4 > 2 16 27 34 IS 35 IS 14 15 S 6 A 11 10 26 14 14 20 14 10 17 21 1 4 12 IS 24 86 18 13 16 11 3 IS 23 U 13 13 30 24 1 60 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Httmber of Days Lost, Etc.Continued NAME Milliken, James MitcheU, W. R..... ...... Morris, O. B. _ -.----._. Morse. W.J._- ___ .--. Nantz, L. H .... ...... O'Neil, T. G..-_ ......... O'Remy.J.J. ......... Osterholz, C. .....-.... Ouzts, J. E. _ ----..... Price, H. L.-..---.-- ... Pryor, W. A... .......... Reisen, H.--- _.--...-.. Remley, D. D... --------- Rowse, J. A. ----- Schafer, V. P............ Sheeban, Wm. _ .... .... Sherrod, M. H. ------- ... Sivers, Wm. __ -_.-.-.- Stephenson, C. E. --..-.. Stewart, W. H... -------- Sullivan, J. J. _ . __ ..-- Swift, F.S. ---------- Ungar, B. __ -------- .. Walton, E. M. __ ....... Weber, J. A. L. ......... Winn, W. S. ____ ...... Williams, E. L... . .... Barthelmess, J. B. _ .... McGinley, T. J._ _-..---.. Hennessy, J. W._ ..---... Kelly, John............. Rottenberg, J. ----------- Sickness 4 21 o 7 3 11 1 7 12 43 4 11 7 4 o >, %* -|0 15 0 3 in Sickness Family 1 2 1 <> 6 1 2 4 4 4 -plior* en 1 1 10 1 2 2 1 4 8 2 3 1 3 2 51 1 1 3 1<> 3 1 2 5 1 Vacation 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Suspended 2 1 1 "3 * i 15 32 27 11 17 14 18 12 2 1 23 24 12 18 17 15 3 7090 16 17 1 29 51 1 18 23 5 10 10 7 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 61 Number of Arrests Made by Each Member of the Department During 1910 NAME RANK ^fs W. G. Austin....... ..-.--_. .Chief........................... 01 I. McCool.. .-..-------__--- -1st Lieutenant.................. 248 T. C. Murphy................2nd Lieutenant........... ... -... 172 M. L. Meldrim. ___._.____..__3rd Lieutenant................. 54 J. J. Murphy................Chief Detective................. 4.38 P. J. Eivers..-...--.-.--.-.-Detective_-.................. 315 J. H. W. Umbach.......-.--.Detective................. ..... 302 C. T. Christie............... -Detective .......... ............ 263 E. D. Fallen..__...........Detective...................... 343 C. S. Cowart___.-.......--Detective...................... 296 D. J. Cronin.....-.----...---1st Sergeant.................... 17 H. W. Baughn............ --.Sergeant........... ............ 3 J. S. Hallford.................Sergeant........................ 60 J. J. Deignan........... --...Sergeant. ........................ 79 J. D. Setnken._--.....---..Sergeant....................... ... ". H. Lange.---.----....-..-Sergeant....-.......-........._ 104 . C. BelL...... ............Sergeant....................... 33 . I. Reilley...-------.....Sergeant....................... 19 . J. Farrell...-.-----...-_Sergeant__..................... 129 !?. J. Kellv..............-.--Quartermaster..... ............ 2 Akm, J. M.___.---.-.....--Patrolman..--......-.-.....-.. 86 Alexander, E. D... ......-.--.Patrolman..--................. 118 Barber, T. D.___...... .-.-Patrolman....-.-....-.-......- 46 Becker, W. L................Patrolman..................... 10 Beach, J. K.......... ....--..Patrolman... .................. 15 Beach, G. E...................Patrolman..................... 77 Bell, C. L._._....--.....-Patrolman..................... 16 Bentley, J. P................ .Patrolman..................... 36 Best, C. D.......----....----Patrolman...................... 37 Blumberg, L.-.. --.... ...---Patrolman.............. ...... 72 Brant, R. P.. ___.--..___Patrolman... _-..__.-__.__..__. 37 Brennan, T._.......___Patrolman_.................. 123 Burns, C..--...-.---------.-.Patrolman..................... 142 Burnett, C. B....----.-...- ..Patrolman...--................ 26 Byrd, E. L.....__----..-.--Patrolman..................... 84 Cameron, T. J....----.-....-.Patrolman............... ...... 4 Cantey, O. P.___......._Patrolman_.................. 43 Clancy, J. T.............-.-..Patrolman._-.-.-...---........ 141 Cleary, T. F.._ .._. .-....-.Patrolman..-----...-.........- 35 Cohen, M. G..._-.--.---.-..-Patrolman..................... 30 Collins, M. N. ______.._Patrolman_................... 52 Cordray, J. A..-.....-...----Patrolman_.....-..---....... 29 Counihan, M. T.--........--..Patrolman...................... 125 Crosby, W. F."....--.--.....-Patrolman..................... 63 Davis, E. P......--.-....._Patrolman..................... 1 Davis, R. T........-----.-.--Patrolman.....--..-........... 8 DeLeon, J. P... __.....--.-Patrolman...--.....-.......--. 113 Dominick, A. M.-.-.-.-.-.-.-Patrohnan.....---....----...-- 145 Dooley, R. F.___--....----Patrolman.,.--.-...-.......... 58 Ellis, G. H._______......Patrolman..................... 21 Evans, W. O._ .____...-.--Patrolman..-.--.-..---........ 106 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Number of Arrests, Etc.Continued NAME RANK Forehand, R. A.. ........... .Patrolman.. . .................. 36 Fahey, P. J. __ ............ Patrolman... ........... ...... 315 Flaherty, T. E... . . ......... .Patrolman.. ................... 51 Fleming. Vs. H... ........... Patrolman... .. ........... ... 10!) Flynn. C. J.. .............. ..Patrolman.... ................ 44 Goslee, M._ __ ...... ...... ..Patrolman........ ............. 139 Grubbs, C. B.__. ............ .Patrolman... .................. 60 Barley, H. E ............ ..Patrolman. .................... 28 Harley, R. H...... ....... .. .Patrolman.... ............. ...... 12 Harper, J. G. ............. -Patrolman... .................. 43 Hayes, R. J. ---.....-..-..- -Patrolman....... .......... ... 13 Hicks, L. ....... ....... . .Patrolman.... .................. 26 Hodges. W. F. ......... .Patrolman..... . .. ........... 22 Hosti, H. ___ .... ...... . . .Patrolman...... ............... 06 Hutson, H. C.. ...... .......Patrolman..................... 74 Ivey, A... ___ .. .......... .Patrolman.. .............. ...... 137 Keane, T. __ ... .. .......... .Patrolman.... ................. 50 Kearney. F. J. ........... . -Patrolman. Keller, "C. W.__. ............ .Patrolman. Kemp, H. H._... ......... ..Patrolman.. Killian, J. G. .............. . -Patrolman. . Leech, C. F.... ............. -Patrolman.. Lively, G. P.. ...... ....... ..Patrolman.. Long" C. R. .-.-.--. -.-.--... .Patrolman.. Longabaugh, J. D._ ........ . .Patrolman i. Lovett, R. F. __ .. . . .....--.Patrolman.. Lysaught, D. ._._.-...-..... . Patrolman. _ McAcy. J. W. . ..-...-...-..Patrolman.. McAlpin, T. E... .. .......... .Patrolman.. McCarthy, J. C..... .......... -Patrolman.. McGratb, J. ..-.-...-.-.--- . -Patrolman. . McGrath, J. H... ........... .Patrolman.. Malphus, C. M. _ ........... .Patrolman.. Merchant, R. E... .-.-.. ...-. .Patrolman.. Milliken, James.. . .......... . .Patrolman.. Mitchell. W. R... ........... .Patrolman.. Morgan, L. P. ._....-..-.-... .Patrolman. . Morris, O. B._- ..---.----.-. .Patrolman.. Morse, W. J. ......--.-.- ... .. Patrolman. Xantz , W. J. , L. H Newton, E. L... . ........... .Patrolman.. O'Neil, T. G. --...-----.-.. ..Patrolman.. O'Reillv, J. J. _ ------- .... ..Patrolman.. Osterholz, C. E.... ......... - .Patrolman.. Ouzts, J. E.. .-----.------... Patrolman.. Price, H. L. ----------------- Patrolman.. Pryor, W. A. ................ Patrolman _ Qu'arterman, T. A.. ......... .Patrolman.. Reisen, H..._ ___ ..-.--.--.. Patrolman.. Remley, D. D..... -.--.-.-. . .Patrolman.. Rowse, J. A.. _ ------ -.-.-.-.Patrolman.. Schafer, V. F. _ ............. Patrolman.. Sheehan, Win. _ ...-.--.... .Patrolman.. ............... 104 ................ 31 83 ................ 54 ............... 6j Cheating and swindling.......................................................... 46 Contempt of court................................................................ . 58 f Cruelty to animals............................................................... 22 Cruelty to children............................................................ 1 > Cow stealing............................................................................ 2 j Deserters from the Army and Navy.................................... 2 Deserters from foreign vessels............................................. 25 Disorderly conduct................................................................ 2,738 Drunk and disorderly............................................................ 2,154 Escaped convicts................................................................. 37 Exposure of person............................................................... 4 Fast and reckless driving................................................... 5 Forgery................................................................................... 15 Gambling............................................................................... 282 Horse stealing....................................................................... 1 Involuntary manslaughter................................................... 4 Incest_.......................................................................... 1 Impersonating an officer....._............................................. 1 Juvenile Court.................................................................. 3 Keeping a disorderly house............................................... 11 Keeping and maintaining a gambling house..................... 9 Keeping a gambling device for the hazarding of money.. 4 Larceny after trust................................................................ 50 I Larceny from the house.......................................................... 124 Larceny from the person...................................................... 66 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 67 Causes of ArrestContinued Larceny, grand._................................................................... 7 Larceny, simple.................................................................. 412 Lunacy.................................................. ............................... 31 Malicious mischiet................................................................ 2 Mayhem.................................................................................... 1 Murder........................... ........................................................ 16 Perjury................................................................................ 1 Public indecency.......... ................. ................................. . 2 Pointing a pistol not in his own defense...... .................. 28 Robbery by force............. ............... ................... ........... .. 21 Receiving stolen goods._... ........... ....................... ............. 7 Shooting at another not in his own defense.... ............... 5 Shooting on a public highway............... ................... .... . 11 Stealing a ride on a railroad train.................................... 11 Suspicious characters................................ .................... 705 Seduction........................................ ..... ......................... 2 Sodomy.............. ................. .. ......... ..... ................. .... 4 United States Court.................................... .......... ....... .. 3 Vagrancy............... ........................ ..................... .......... 76 Violating automobile ordinance............................. ... ..... 67 Violating city ordinance._................... ......................... 716 Violating traffic ordinance...... ...... .............................. .... 1,743 Violating prohibition law................ ..................... ........... 41 "Wife beating............................................ ............. ................. 25 Total............................................................................... 9,965 68 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Ambulance Calls for Year 1910 MONTH .-a ' If, January...... ........_....._..._._._._---.' 41 43.' 84 February............. ....... ..............I 39' 26 65 March..'........... ........................ 47 > 49 96 April......................................: 23- 34 57 May................ ..................... 28 41 69 June...................................... 30 ! 33 63 July-.....--...-..-.......-.-..-..-.----... 37 44 81 August......-..-......-.-..--.....-....-.. 35. 48 83 September................................. 44 48 92 October.-------........----.........-.--.-- 62 42 104 November.-............-.---.----.----.---, 58 ' 51 109 December................................-.-! 64 61 125 Totals.-................-.-..-...-.--.- 508 520 1028 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1910, AS COMPARED WITH THE EXPENSES FOR 1909 Receipts Appropriation for 1910............. ............................... $131,000.00 Union Station............................................................ 1,800.00 Station house fees..........._......................................... 160.50 Patrolmen's services (special)................................... 178.25 Sale of condemned and unserviceable property, empty sacks, etc.............. . ... ........................ 367.21 Total........... ..................... ... ........................ $133,505.96 Expenditures 1909 1910 Salaries.............................................. $114,995.29 $113,703.24 Horse feed....................... ............... 4,781.78 4,273.40 Horses._......... ................................. 1,325.00 1,320.00 Horse shoeing............................. 666.27 672.75 Veterinary services.................. . 257.75 487.30 Uniforms........................................... 3,981.40 3,130.68 Prisoners' rations.... ..................... 1,233.83 1,531.73 General improvements and repairs 305.53 163.86 General supplies............................ 1,23(5.54 1,522.34 Property........................................... 687.54 487.20 Lights................................................ 322.30 452.83 Fuel................................................ 146.50 250.00 Telephone rentaL............................. 323.11 399.01 Printing, stationery, etc................... 304.55 333.20 Gamewell system.......................... 49.95 49.56 Postage and telegrams...................... 132.38 229.92 Insurance........ .............................. 75.00 325.00 Expenses, Chief, Convention.......... 150.00 .......... Incidentals.-..-................................. 158.34 340.50 Purchase and maintenance of automobile................................ 1,792.25 1,727.95 Totals....................................... $132,925.31 $131,400.47 Balance turned in to City Treasurer.._:...... $2,105.49 70 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Expenses of the Department for the Past Eight Years and Estimated Expenses for 1911 Expenses of Department for 190-1........................... $ 90,866.13 Expenses of Department for 1904............................ 89,399.88 Expenses of Department for 1905...................... .... 93,029.20 Expenses of Department for 1900........................... 106,281.04 'Expenses of Department for 1907................... ........ . 121,350.47 Expenses of Department for 1908........................... 122,141.47 Expenses of Department for 1909.......................... 132,925.31 Expenses of Department for 1910...................... 131,400.47 Amount appropriated for 1911._........................... 131,000.00 Inventory of Property Police Department grounds....................................... $60,000.00 Police Headquarters' building................................... 25,000.00 Police outbuildings.................................................... 12,000.00 Gamewell system........................................................ 25,000.00 Inside telephone system.............................................. 100.00 ] Automobile (Stuck 17)..................................... 1,000.00 1 Motorcycle (Excelsior)...................................... 175.00 41 Horses.-._-...-..-....- ...... .......................... 6,200.00 2 Patrol wagons................. .................................. 450.00 2 Ambulances...................!. ................ ............ 450.00 1 Buckboard.__....................................... ......... 75.00 1 Patrol wagon (unserviceable).__..................... 25.00 1 Supply wagon....................................................".... 100.00 1 Supply wagon (unserviceable)..-.................... 25.00 1 Buggy...................................................................... 75.00 5 Sets single harness............................................. 125.00 2 Sets double harness.............................................. 100.00 42 Springfield rifles................................................... 400.00 42 Winchester rifles.............................................. 400.00 115 Revolvers................................................................ 1,150.00 32 Saddles, bridles and blankets.............................. 1,100.00 4 Roller top desks.................................................... 300.00 4 Small desks............................................................ 80.00 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 71 1 Flat top desk, standing....................................... 55.00 1 Steel filing cabinet............................................. : 250.00 1 Wooden filing cabinet........................................ 40.00 1 Small filing cabinet......................................... ..... 15.00 1 Remington typewriter (tabulator)......................" 120.00 1 Prisoners' property cabinet............................ .... 60.00 110 Clothes' lockers ........................................... ...... 440.00 92 Iron cots.................................. .............. ............. 275.00 90 Mattresses...... ................................................... 150.00 30 Prisoners' blankets.......................... ................. 60.00 3 Iron safes.......... ............... ........... .. ................ 200.00 1 Large table......................................................... 175.00 6 Small tables......................'.. .............. .......... ..... 80.00 7 Revolving desk chairs.................. ..................... 100.00 11 Leather back chairs............ ................................ 120.00 09 Courtroom chairs...................... .......................... 140.00 7 Stoves for heating........._................................. 155.00 1 Cooking stove and utensilst................................. 35.00 3 Clocks................................................... ....... 50.00 1 Steel clothes' locker._......................................... 50.00 1 Medicine chest and contents............................... 25.00 5 Electric fans ............. ......................................... 120.00 1 Art Square............. .............................................. 40.00 8 Rugs._....... ..................................................... 30.00 3 Foot mats............................... ............................ 10.00 52 Cuspidors............................................................. 50.00 1 Lounge.................................................................... 30.00 1 Bookcase.............................................. 40.00 1 Steel bookcase.......................................... 75.00 20 Window shades..................................... 40.00 Floor coverings.....-...................... ............ 300.00 Pictures, mirrors, etc........................................ 50.00 1 Ice box.................................................................... 5.00 2 Water coolers.............................................. 5.00 3 Pairs handcuffs................................................. 15.00 2 Bicycles, equipped with speedometers. ......... 150.00 12 Pairs pillows.................................................. 30.00 34 Sabers._..................................................... 100.00 72 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 50 Web cartridge belts............ ............................... 50.00 100 Wreaths............................................................ 75.00 25 Club sockets.......................................................... 15.00 100 Badges.. ......................................................... 50.00 100 Clubs............. ...................................................... 75.00 100 Whistles...... ...... .... ... ... ..................................... 25.00 1 Letter press and copying outfit......................... 10.00 4 Horse blankets................... .................................. 15.00 27 Yale locks............................................................. 30.00 2 Wheelbarrows..... .............................................. 10.00 Total.... ... ...... ... ..... ........................................ $98,470.00 GAMEWELL BOXES Stations 12 Bay and Habersham 13 Bay and Randolph 14 Bay and East Broad 15 Bay and Drayton 21 Bay and Schwarz Avenue 22 Broughton and East Broad 23 Oglethorpe Avenue and East Broad 24 Congress and Bull 25 President and Randolph 31 York and Bull 32 Anderson and Waters Road 33 Liberty and Randolph 34 Estill Avenue and Waters Road 35 Park Avenue and East Broad 42 Montgomery and Forty-second Streets 43 Oglethorpe Avenue and Fahm 44 River and Water 45 Indian and Fahm 51 Bay and West Broad 52 Estill Avenue and Bull MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 73 53 Broughton and West Broad 54 Broughton and Fahm 121 Oglethorpe Avenue and West Broad 122 Louisville Road and Dooley Avenue 123 Gwinnett and Stiles Avenue 124 Gwinnett and Magnolia 125 Liberty and West Broad 131 Union Station 132 Cohen and West Boundary 133 Charlton and Jefferson 144 City Market 152 Gaston and West Broad 212 Gaston and Whitaker 213 Park Avenue and West Broad 214 Anderson and West Broad 215 Liberty and East Broad 221 Gwinnett and West Broad 242 Gwinnett and East Broad 243 Jones and East Broad 312 Gaston and Lincoln 313 Hartridge and East Broad 314 Wheaton and Waters Road 321 Bolton and Atlantic Avenue 322 Park Avenue and Abercorn 323 Henry and Bull 331 Anderson and East Broad 341 East Broad and Thirty-eighth Streets 412 Ogeechee Road and Thirty-sixth Street 413 Bull and Thirty-sixth Streets 3-A 74 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT REPORT OF THE RECORDER To THE HONORABLE THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH. GENTLEMEN :It is my pleasure to submit herewith my Fourth Annual Report as Recorder covering the year of 1910. While I have no special recommendations to make save the one made in my former reports requesting the passage of an ordinance empowering punishment for loiterers, I desire to direct your attention to the marked increase, not only in the number of arrests made last year, but as well to a corresponding increase in the amount of the fines collected through the medium of the Court over which I have the honor to preside. This increase in fines, aggregating over $4,000.00 more than any previous normal year is, of course, natural, but at the same time it demonstrates that the demands upon the time of the Recorder are correspondingly increased. In fact, I am convinced that within the course of the next few years the Recorder of Savannah will be compelled to devote his entire time to the discharge of the duties of his office. The general impression prevails that the few hours spent in the Police Court in the morning constitutes the entire work of the Recorder, but never was a greater mistake made. To properly discharge the duties of the office, the Recorder must at all times, from early morn till late at night, be accessible, which fact, of course, necessarily seriously affects his practice of his profession. I mention this condition of affairs for the purpose of explaining and justifying my recent increase in salary, which, if the facts were unknown, would, and as a matter of fact have, been the cause of considerable unfair and unmerited criticism on your honorable body. Presiding in Police Court is the smallest part of the duties of my office, and as the city grows, the number of legal infractions become MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 75 greater, the demands upon the time of the Recorder in Court becomes greater and necessarily the demands upon his time out of Court increases. fj - out of Court increases. i submit herewith a detailed report of the transactions of the Court, which by comparison with the business and returns of previous years will demonstrate conclusively the force of the statements heretofore made. Total Number of Arrests During 1910 White women............... ......................................................... 184 White men................ ...................... ...................................... 3,535 Negro women........ ....................... ......................................... 1,171 Negro men........................ ..................... ............................. 4,GOcS Chinamen............................ ................................................ 2 Minors............................... .................. ....... .. ...................... 405 Total.....:. ................................................. ................ 9,905 Disposition of Above Cases Sentenced in Recorder's Court...................................... 4,119 Dismissed in Recorder's Court................ .......... ........... ..... :!,912 Sentenced and sentence suspended by Recorder.... ......... 262 Turned over to Superior Court.................. ............... .. ... . 19!) Turned over to City Court.......... .............. ....... ......... ..... 582 Turned over to Ordinary's Court...... ... ......... .................. 52 Turned over to various County Sheriffs...................... ..... 78 Turned over to foreign vessels......................... . ...... ......... 40 Turned over to Army and Navy................"... . ...... ....... ..... 7 Turned over tq Juvenile Court.. ................ ................ . 24 Suspicious characters................................................... .. . G90 Total................................. ........................... ............ 9,965 76 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Arrests Each Month MONTH February. ....... ............ March............. .......... . April. ........ ............. Mav_... ........ .............. June. ............. ........_. July.. ....................... October............... ........ November .................... Totals __ __ . __ .- .. 8 I 362 389 592 609 614 497 614 522 446 453 304 377 5779 ! !Whites 174 154 198 548 472 411 339 339 352 228 291 213 3719 Chinamen 1 1 2 8 o J5 31 39 31 70 50 30 48 63 49 18 14 22 465 a$ 567 582 821 1227 1136 QQjJ 1001 925 847 699 610 612 9965 Fines Collected in Police Court During the Year 1910 Januarv..................................................................... $1,348.55 February................................ ..... ........................... 1,903.05 March.......................................................................... 2,771.15 April............................................................................. 1,996.15 May ............................................................................ 2,029.15 June........................................................................... 2,211.45 July........._....................................................................... 2,269.55 August.......................................................................... 2,152.50 September.................................................................... 1,781.25 October........................................ ................................ 1,988.85 November................................................................... 1,850.50 December.............................................................. .... 1,260.05 Total... ._........................................................... $23,562.20 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 77 Statement of Fines Collected in Police Court for Each Year From 1902 to 1910 Inclusive 1902............. ................................................. ...........$ 6,242.95 1903............................................ ................................ 9,492.90 1904............................. ........ .................. ................... 9,328.00 1905................. ............ ... ....................................... 10,057.00 1906...... .......................... ... ................ .................. 12,236.00 1907............................... .......... ..... . ......................... 18,255.25 1908................................. .. .......... ........................... 35,113.60 1909................................ ......... ............................ 19,332.01 1910...................... ......... . .................................... 23,562.20 Causes of Arrest Abandonment of wife and children.................................... 1 Adultery and fornication.................................................... 3 Aiding a convict to escape.......... ..................................... 3 Assault and battery...-.._................... ................................. 21 Assault with intent to murder.............'................................ 02 Assault with intent to rape.... ............................................ 7 Assaulting and stabbing................................ .................... 60 Arrests upon requests of other Counties and States........ 60 Breaking and entering a railroad car.................................. 9 Burglary.................................... ...................................... .. 100 Carrying concealed weapons............................................... 37 Cheating and swindling........................................................ 46 Contempt of court................................................................. 58 Cruelty to animals................ ............................................. 22 Cruelty to children........... .. ............ ... ...... .. .................... 1 Cow stealing.................. ...... ... ................................. 2 Deserters from the Army and Navy................................. 2 Deserters from foreign vessels.......................................... 25 Disorderly conduct.......................... . . ....... ................ .... 2,738 Drunk and disorderly...... ................................................. 2,154 Escaped convicts._................... ....... ................................ 37 78 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Causes of ArrestContinued Exposure of person.............................................................. 4 Fast and reckless driving .................................................. 5 Forgery............... .. ........... .................... ................. ......... 15 Gambling............. ...... ... ................. .......... .......... ......... 282 Horse stealing............... .............. ..... ..... ................... 1 Involuntary manslaughter ................... ....... ................... 4 Incest..................... .......... . .......................... .................... I Impersonating an officer. ................................. ................. 1 Juvenile Court....................... .......... ..... ..... ......... .............. 3 Keeping a disorderly house.... ...................................... 11 Keeping and maintaining a gambling house..................... 9 Keeking a gambling device for the hazarding of money.. 4 Larceny after trust................. ... .................................. ..... 50 Larceny from the house....................... ............................. 124 Larceny from the person...................... .................. ....... 6G Larceny, Grand......................................................... ......... 7 Larceny, Simple.................... .............................................. 412 Lunacy...... ....... .................................................................... 31 Malicious mischief..... ............. .. ......................................... 2 Mayhem.......................... ...l........... ... ....................................... 1 Murder.................................. ................................................ 16. Perjury................................. ... ............................................. 1 Public indecency........................................................... .... 2 Pointing a pistol not in his own defense........................... 28 Robbery by force................................................................ 21 Receiving stolen goods........... .......................................... 7 Shooting at anocher not in his own defense.................... 5 Shooting on a public highway................... ......................... 11 Stealing a ride on a railroad train. ................................. 11 Suspicious characters........................................... ............. 705 Seduction........................................ ................................ 2 Sodomy._.................................. .............................................. 4 United States Court........ ................................................ 3 Vagrancy........._....................................... ....... ... ................. 76 Violating automobile ordinance................. ....................... 07 Violating city ordinance.................................. ................ 716 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 79 Violating traffic ordinance.............. ..................................... 1,743 Violating prohibition law............. ... .................... ........... 41 Wife beating............... ... .. ............... .......... ....................... .... 25 Total ...................... ... ............. .. .....!............ ....... ..... 9,965 Respectfully submitted, JOHN E. SCHWARZ, Recorder Police Court, City of Savannah. TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PAID FIRE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GA. FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 1910 THOMAS BALLANTYNE SUPERINTENDENT 82 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT FIRE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH FOR THE YEAR 1910. M. J. KAVANAUGH, Chairman R. M. HCLL CRAIG BARROW C. G. \VILKIXSOX H. E. WILSON . FIRE DEPARTMENT THOMAS BALLAXTYXE...................... .. ...... .........Superintendent J. J. COXXOLLY............ ............. . ......Assistant Superintendent P. F. CURRY. ............................. ....Clerk and Storekeeper E. O. KESSLER ............... ........ .. ... ......... ......Electric Inspector F. J. KILROY. . .. ....... . ..... ........... ........ ........Fire Inspector D. S. O'CoxxoR.'... .... ...... ... ... .. .............Asst. Fire Inspector T. P. SAXDIFORD ... .................... ....Superintendent Fire Alarm J. P. KAVAXAUGH. ...... ............ Chaffeur to Superintendent C. C. EDWARDS....... ......... .... ........ Chaffeur to Superintendent MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 83 SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. Office of the Superintendent of the Fire Department SAVANNAH, GA, January 1, 1911 To THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN of the CITY of SAVANNAH: GENTLEMEN:I have the honor to submit my fourth annual report of the operations and conditions of the Fire Department of the city for the year ending December 31,1910, this report being the Twenty-first Annual Report of the Paid Fire Department. The total force of the Department at the close of the year was one hundred (100) men as follows. 1 Superintendent. 1 Assistant Superintendent. 1 Clerk and Storekeeper. 1 Superintendent Fire Alarm. 1 Electric Inspector. 1 Fire Inspector. 1 Assistant Fire Inspector. 2 Chaffeurs. 7 Foremen of Engine Companies. $4 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 7 Assistant Foremen of Engine Companies. 1 Foreman of Truck Company. 1 Assistant Foreman of Truck Company. 1 Foreman of Chemical Company. 1 Assistant Foreman of Chemical Company. 7 Engineers of Steamers. 20 Drivers. 3 Tillermen. 4:i Firemen. During the year the following changes were made: 1 Electric Inspector resigned. 1 Electric Inspector appointed. 1 Foreman Dismissed on account of disability. 1 Assistant Foreman made Foreman. 1 Fireman made Assistant Foreman. 1 Engineer dismissed. 1 Fireman made Engineer. 10 Firemen resigned. 6 Firemen dismissed. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 85 6 Firemen reinstated 11 Firemen appointed. Leaving the force One Hundred (100) men; the number authorized by city ordinance. FORCE BY COMPANIES Fire Station No. 1 518-520-522 Broughton Street, East Name Capacity In Service Thomas Fogerty....................Foreman...........................12 years M. J. Roach............................Assistant Foreman..............lO years E. J. Burns............................Engineer................................ 2 years Jos. A. McGrath....................Driver Engine.....................10 years R. J. O'Keefe......"..................Driver-Wagon...................... 3 years F. Goritz................................Hoseman.............................. 9 years T. Welsh................................Hoseman............................. 7 years J. Higgins................................Hoseman.............................. 3 years T. J. Duffy..............................Hoseman.............................. 1 year T. J. Ryan.............................Hoseman.............................. 2 years J. F. HartnolL .....................Hoseman............................. 2 years Fire Station No. 2 Indian and West Broad Streets Name Capacity In Service A. P. McFarland....................Foreman..............................24 years J. J. Whalen..........................Assistant Foreman.............. 7 years D. P. Murphy........................Engineer.............................12 years G. F. Kilroy..........................Driver Engine..................... 6 years L. F. Henderson....................Driver Wagon.................-12 years 86 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT B. E. ShepparcL ......... .... .Driver Truck._....... ......... (i years M. F. Harvey.,........ ...........Tillerman Truck................. 4 years G. Pritchard.... ............. ....Hoseman.............................. 6 mos. V. S. PacettL... . .... ......... .Hoseman... ................. . 0 years J. B. Tompson................. .....Hoseman..... ... ............... .... 2 mos. Jno. W. Whalen............. .Hoseman..... ... ...... ..... 4 years J. S. O'Brien._............... .Hoseman..... ............... 4 years G. J. Campsen................... Hoseman................... ... 2 years R. P. Sheahan.. .......... ....... .Hoseman............... ............. 1 year J. C. Puder.............. ...... ....Hoseman... ........... ........ I year Fire Station No. 3 Headquarters, Oglethorpe Avenue and Abercorn Streets Xame Capacity In Service C. V. Egense......... ...... .. ....Foreman ............... ........... 20 years E. T. Morrissey... ........ ...... .Assistant Foreman............ 9 years S. W. Peck._... .......... ... ... Engineer............ .......... ... . 5 years J. C. Sheahan..... .............. .Driver Engine............ ..... . 7 years T. G. Kearney.................... Driver Wagon........'.. . ........ 7 years C. Christensen .....................Hoseman....... ................... 11 years W. F. White:.........................Hoseman....... ............ . ..... 5 years J. C. Hirt............................. Hoseman... . ... . .... ........ 5 years J. R. Wohanka........ ..........Hoseman................... ......... 4 years J. Hunter....... ... ..... .......Hoseman... ...... ............... .. 3 years J. H. BelL... .... ... ...... ... Hoseman........ ..................... 2 years Fire Station No. 4 (506 Barnard Street Name Capacity In Service D. V. Whitaker............... .....Foreman........................... .11 years J. P. Duffy._...........................Assistant Foreman..............13 years W. J. Futch__............... .........Engineer........................ .....12 years C. W. Stein..........................Driver Engine........... ........ 5 years G. C. Donnelly.....................Driver Wagon............ ..... .20 years MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 87 W. H. Remley.......!......... .....Driver Truck....................... 9 years J. H. Doerner.. .............. .....Tillerman Truck............ .... 2 years J. C. Bailey._....... .................Hoseman.............................. G years C. W. Ellis.............................Hoseman......-..-................. 8 years J. H. Alien.............................Hoseman............................. 5 years Thos. J. Fogarty.................. Hoseman............................. 5 years H. Center............................. .Hoseman.......................... .. 2 years J. J. Broderick............ ......Hoseman.............................. 3 mos. . Fire Station No. 5 4 11 Henry Street, East Name Capacity In Service A. M. Rogers................... ......Foreman.... .........................14 years H. F. Corley.................... ....Assistant Foreman..............20 years C. A. Christians......... ........ Engineer...........................19 years L. D. Walsh.............. ......... .Driver Engine............ ......... 4 years M. F. Sullivan.......... ... .........Driver Wagon............ ....... 7 years T. L. Gannon....................... ..Hoseman............................. 6 mo. W. J. Hanlon..................... .. .Hoseman............................ . 1 mos. J. N. Egense..........................Hoseman.................. .......... '3 years Fire Station No. 6 Thirty-Eighth and Barnard Streets Name Capacity In Service C. M. Burnham......................Foreman..............................14 years J. J. Hearn..............................Assistant Foreman..............14 years L. Trebony._.......................... Engineer...........................21 years W. J. Cleary.........................Driver Engine......................26 years F. H. Tompson......................Driver Wagon......................14 years G. J. Brind..............................Hoseman.............................. 2 years W. L. DuFour......................Hoseman.............................. 2 years F. W. Donnelly...................Hoseman.............................. 6 mos. 88 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Fire Station Ho. 7 Gwinnett and Paulsen Streets Name Capacity In Service J. O'Leary..............................Foreman..............................17 years T. Hamilton.......-........ ......Assistant Foreman..............l8 years "W. J. Barrett................... ....Engineer.............................. 2 years J. J. Fitzpatrick...................Driver Engine..................... 5 years W. W. Pringle........................Driver Wagon........._...........17 years B. Leddy.................. .............Driver Truck......................12 years H. J. I^rkm..........................Hoseman..............................24 years J. W. Witte........................Hoseman............................. 6 mos. J. J. Buttimer.....................Hosemaii.............................. 2 years J. C. Henderson....................Hoseman.............................. 6 years W. F. Carrick................. Hoseman............................. 7 years Chemical Co. No. 1 * Headquarters, Oglechorpe Avenue and Abercorn Street Name Capacity In Service J. Murphy..............................Foreman..............................10 years T. Flynn.................................Assistant Foreman..............l2 years R. B. Hearn...........................Driver.__...._.._.....................11 years G. E. Johnson.......................Hoseman_.........................10 years A. Smith.................................Hoseman..............-.-.......... 5 mos. Truck Co. Ifo. 1 Headquarters, Oglethorpe Avenue and Abercorn Street Name Capacity In Service A. J. Toshach...................... ..Foreman..............................24 years M. F. Morehead......................Assistant Foreman....._.......12 years Thos. Dillon...........................Driver.................................... 9 years F. F. Black..........................Tillerman._........................... 2 years P. E. Forehan .......................Driver, Asst. Supt's buggy, 3 years MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 89 S. Ward.................................. Ladderman................... 4 mos. Albert Hirt.......................Ladderman.-........................ 9 mos. W. S. Blanton...... ........... -..Ladderman.......................... 2 years A. H. Alderman....................Ladderman..................... 2 years APPROPRIATIONS 1910 Fire Department and Uniforms................................. $116,700.00 New Engine House...........-........................................ 7,000.00 New Apparatus.............................................................. 6,500 00 Total........................................................................$130,200 00 EXPENDITURES 1909 1910 Salariea...................................................$ 86,744.10 $ 91,222.10 Printing and Stationery...................... 152.20 173.57 Feed for Stock..................................... 5,868.65 6,228.99 Horse Shoeing....................................... 989.52 784.69 Treatment of Sick Stock..................... 355.55 343.80 Additional Stock_............................. 1,750.00 1,325.00 Harness and Repairs to same.......... 243.85 163.37 Repairs to Apparatus..................... 1,743.54 2,717.29 Engine Coal and Wood....................... 91.75 111.25 Stove and Heater, Coal and Wood.... 1,102.00 1,062.10 Gas and Illuminating Oils................... 744.32 737.45 Lubricating Oil and Waste............ 102.32 124.05 Soda and Acid........................................ 280.28 133.16 Beds and Bedding for Men....... 303.75 Furniture and Fixtures................ 100.45 85.75 Implements of the Service.................. 244.73 545.89 Paints, Varnish, Etc............................. 164.25 315.96 Repairs to Buildings............................ 729.04 452.06 Additional Hose.................................. 3,882.45 17.80 Boxes, Instruments, Wire Tools, Etc. 19.43 714.60 90 MAYOR'S AN'XUAL REPORT Telephone Rent... ........................ 157.51 . 115.32 Cleaning Tools, Etc............................... 470.26 . 296.07 Repairs to Heaters............................ 31.66 18.66 Ice.............. ......................................... 100.00 100.00 Surgeon's Fees ............................... 10.00 4.00 Rent of Houses.............................. 60.00 60.00 Incidentals...................................... 842.14 268.17 Pensions........... .................................... 1,092.50 .................... Unifonns................................................. 4,080.45 3,906.21 Electric Inspector, Repairs........... .... and Horse-shoeing........... .......... 66.95 New Engine House......................... ...... 11,657.78 New Apparatus..................................... 6,999.80 Automobile for Supperintendent........ 2,950.00 Totals....... .... ........... ... .. ........$133,827.45 $112,331.12 RECEIPTS FOR 1910 Electric Inspector's Fees.......... ... ...... .........................$1.386.20 Sale of Hose Couplings................................................. 6.74 Sale of Horses.................................................................... 41.00 Sale of Sacks and Barrels................. .. ........................ 45.85 Sale of Old Hose.............. .......................... ............... ..... 25.00 Sale of Scrap Iron and Brass........................... ...... . 55.34 Sale of Old Beds, Etc................................... ............. 4.25 Totals ............. ........... .. ....................... ....... .....$1,564.38 Total Appropriations 1910.. ............................... ....$130,200.00 Total Expenditures 1910............................................ 112,331.12 Balance ....... ...................... ............................ ..........$ 17,868.88 Receipts .............................................................. 1,564.38 Net Balance................ .... .. ..-. .......................... .........$ 19,433.20 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 91 ESTIMATED VALUE OF DEPARTMENT PROPERTY Fire Station No. 1.........-....-...-....-..........-....-....-.$ 20,750.00 Fire Station No 2.......................................................... 28,195.00 Fire Station No. 3.....:............................................. 20,750.00 Fire Station No. 4........................................................ 23,514.00 Fire Station No. 5...................................................... 14,820.00 Fire Station No. 6................................................... 10.530.00 Fire Station No. 7 ........ ............................................ 26,000.00 Truck Co. No. 1.......................................................... 25,000.00 Chemical Co. No. I..............................-............ 10,364.00 Fire Alarm System........................................................ 40,446.00 Miscellaneous............................-............." 3,435.00 Total.................................................................. .$223,804.00 EXPENSES BY STATIONS Fire Station No. 1.......................-................$ 12,364.26 Fire Station No. 2...........-............-................. 16,007.27 Fire Station No. 3................................................. 11,728.61 Fire Station No. 4....................................................... 15,598.96 Fire Station No. 5.................................................... 8,875.20 Fire Station No. 6........................................................ 8,467.12 Fire Station No. 7.................................................... 11,219.06 Truck Co. No. !._..............:................ 8,518.57 Chemical Co. No. 1........._......................................... 5,894.17 Fire Alarm......!........................................................ 1,155.69 Electric Fee............................................................... 1,154.24 General Expenses.......................................................... 11,365.97 Total............................................. ...................... .$112,331.12 02 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT DESCRIPTION OF ROLLING STOCK Engine No. 1First Size Double Pump LaFrance: Engine No. 2Double extra first size pump LaFrance Engine No. 3First size double pump LaFrance. Engine No. 4Third size double pump LaFrance. Engine No. 5Fifth size single pump LaFrance. Engine No. <5Second size single pump Amoskeag. Engine No. 7Second size single pump Jeffers. Reserve Engine No. 8.Second size double pump LaFrance. Hose Tenders No. 1One two-horse wagon. No. 2One two-horse wagon. (See Combination.) No. 3One two-horse wagon. No. 4One two-horse wagon. (See Combination.) No. 5One two-horse wagon. (See Combination). No. GOne two-horse wagon. (See Combination.) No. 7One two-horse wagon. ReserveOne two-horse wagon. ReserveOne one-horse reel. MAYOR'S ANN UAL REPORT 93 Chemical Engines Chemical Engine No. 1One Holloway double tank, 85 gallons each. Hook and Ladder Trucks No.'lAmerican LaFrance aerial extension, 75 feet. No. 2Hayes" aerial extension, 55 feet. No. 3Leverich wood frame tiller truck, 52 feet extension. No. 4Rumsey's and Co.'s light steel frame City truck. (See Combination.) Combinations No. 2Originally Holloway Combination with double tank, 35 gallons each; one tank taken off. No. 4One Seagrave, 60 gallon tank under seat. No. 5Tank from Holloway chemical engine placed under seat of wagon. No. 6Originally Holloway chemical engine, with double tanks 65 gallons each, remodelled in 1902, and changed into a hose wagon with one tank under seat. Truck No. 4Tank from Holloway combination, hung under truck frame. Supply and Coal Wagons One two-horse large wagon. Three one-horse small wagons. 94 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Officers' Vehicles One Stevens-Duryea Automtbile 24 H. P. One Superintenent's four wheel buggy in reserve. One Assistant Superintendent's four wheel buggy. Hose On January" 1, 1910, the Department owned 17,500 feet of hose. Since that date 2,650 feet of condemned hose was sold or furnished Street and Lane, Water, Police and Market Departments. The inventory of hose on December 31,1910, shows J. 4,850 feet classed as follows: Very good.__...............................................................13,525 feet Chemical good................................................................ 1,150 feet Condemned_............................................................... 175 feet Total_ ................................................................14,850-feet HEW APPARATUS Auto Combination Chemical Wagon A contract was made with the American LaFrance Fire Company Elmira, New York, for a New Automobile Combination Chemical Wagon, guaranteed 48 H. P.,with a development of 73.3 H. P., Type 5, No. 7. Contract was made February 18 for a delivery in 100 working days. Advice of shipment of this apparatus received MAYOR'S ANNUAL "REPORT 95 December 30; the delay in delivery was unavoidable, this company having just entered the manufacture of this kind of apparatus. New DeMountable Rims on Superintendent's Auto The Superintendent's Automobile was equipped by the Firestone Tire Company with a complete set of De-Mountable Rims at their own expense. Horses On January 1, 1910, there were in service 48 horses. During the year 2 horses, "Burnside and Bartow," were condemned and sold; 1 horse "Dandy" killed. Five new horses were purchased during the year; we now have 50 horses in the Department. Repairs to Apparatus Engine No. 1Two new poles, and tires reset. Wagon No. 1Axle straightened and one new pole. Wagon No. 2Tires reset, nine new felloes, five spokes, body repainted and revarnished. hi ft. Engine No. 4New boiler, two new outlets and a general overhauling. Engine No. 5Replugged. Wagon No. 5Repainted and revarnished Engine No. 6One new pole and minor repairs 06 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Wagon No. 6General repairs, repainted and lettered Engine No. 7New crank, new suction coupling and minor repairs. Wagon No. 7One new step and tires reset. Truck No. 1Minor repairs and re varnished. Truck No. 3Repairs to tiller. Supply Wagon No. 2Rebuilt. Supply Wagon No. 3Two new wheels and tires, minor repairs. Assistant Superintendent's buggyRepainted and minor repairs. Superintendent's buggyNew tire and minor repairs. Superintendent's automobileSix new tires and one new wheel. Electric Inspector's buggyMinor repairs. Injuries to Employees February 28, Driver M. F. Sullivan, Wagon No. 5, slightly bruised on head and legs; while answering telephone alarm from 310 Anderson St., East, wagon ran into telegraph pole at Abercora and Henry Streets, avoiding collision with street car. Off duty 10 days. June 16, Assistant Foreman J. J. Hearn, Engine Co. No. 6, kicked on shins by Hampton horse. Off duty 18 days. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 97 November 2, Assistant Superintendent J. J. Connolly, while answering Box 76, Henry and East Broad Sts., was thrown from buggy at East Broad and Charlton St. Lane in collision with another buggy; he sustained a bad scalp wound, cut under chin and a severe shaking up. Off duty 10 days and 13 hours. November 2, Driver P. E. Forehan of Assistant Superintendent's buggy, while answering, Box 76, East Broad and Henry Sts., was thrown from buggy at East Broad and Charlton St. Lane in collision with another buggy; he was badly bruised on face and legs. Off duty 11 days and 13 hours. December 14, Fireman J. N. Egense, Engine Company No. 5, while working at fire at No. 222 and 224 32nd St., East, Box 123, had hand badly cut. Off duty 21 days. December 14, Fireman H. J. Larkin, Engine Company No. 7, in sliding down pole answering Box 123, had leg broken and received internal injuries. Off duty 17 days. Accidents to Horses January 11, Truck horse "John C" while answering Box 91, slipped on Broughton St. near WMtaker, cutting and brusing himself. Out of service 24 days. February 28, Horse "Dandy" of No. 5 Wagon, while answering telephone alarm from 310 Anderson street, East, was killed by colliding with a telegraph pole at Henry and Abercorn streets. February 28, Horse "Frisky" of No. 5 Wagon, while answering telephone alarm from 310 Anderson street, East, was slightly injured by colliding with telegraph pole at Abercorn and Henry streets. Out of service 10 days. April 29, Horse "Billy" of Engine Coumpany No. 1, while answering Box 17 at Oglethorpe and East Broad streets, 98 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT collided with Engine No. 3, slightly bruising himself. Out of service 12 days. October 30, Horse "Pat C." of Truck Company No. 1, while answering Box 15, was thrown at Price and Oglethorpe avenue, slightly bruising shoulder. Out of service 15 days. October 30, Horse "Tommy" of Engine Company No. 7, fell in house after returning from Box 19. Out of service 61 days. Accidents to Apparatus March 29, Truck No. 3, while out on practice, broke two set screws on tiller. Not out of service. April 29, Engine No. 1, while responding to Box 17, Oglethorpe avenue and East Broad street, collided with Engine No. 3, breaking 2 poles and bending singletree. Not out of service. April 29, Engine No. 3, while responding to Box 17, Oglethorpe avenue and East Broad street, collided with Engine No. 1, breaking suction frame bracket. Not out of service. December 22, Wagon No. 1, while answering Box 135, ran into iron post at Jefferson and Broughton streets, slightly deranging running gear. Out of service 10 hours. December 28, Superintendent's automobile, while answering Box 123, ran into post at Drayton and Henry streets, demolishing left front wheel and damaging seat and fender. Out of service 3 days. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 99 IN MEMORIAM George Mouro Assistant Superintendent; entered the Department February 6, 1878; died December 20, 1906 from injuries received at a fire December 19, 1906. . P. Daley Hoseman of Engine Coumpany No. 5; entered the Department October 6, 1902; died December 20, 190fi from injuries received at a fire December 19, 1906. H. J. Eady Hoseman of Engine Company No. 5; entered the Department November 9, 1904; killed in the discharge of his duty at a fire December 19, 1906. DIED DURING THE YEAR Alderman M. J. Kavanaugh Chairman Fire Committee Officers and members of this Department deeply regret their sad loss in the death of Chairman M. J. Kavanaugh, who died Sunday, December 18, 1910. REPAIRS TO BUILDINGS Fire Station' No. 3 (headquarters building); roof and tower were repainted. Outbuilding at Fire Station No. 4 was improved by a new cement floor. 100 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Outbuilding at Fire Station No 5 was rebuilt. During the year improvements were made by the paving of the yards of Fire Stations Nos. 4, 6 and 7. FIRE ALARM SYSTEM I am pleased to report that during the year four new Fire Alarm Boxes were added to the Fire Alarm System where they were most needed, three of which are public and one private (C. R. R. carpenter shop). For a more extended report of this system please refer to Superintendent Fire Alarm T. P. Sandiford's report. RECOMMENDATIONS I would respectfully recommend that the appropriation not used for new engine house this year be appropriated as soon as possible the coming year. This engine house is badly needed in the Western section of the City. I would respectfully recommend that the Fire Alarm System be extended by the purchase of ten to twelve new Fire Alarm Boxes; that they be installed as soon as possible. The city's growth demands this extension and we have not sufficient boxesthey being 'too far apart in the southern section. This system should be put underground wherever it is possible to do so. I would also respectfully recommend thac the increased pay asked for by the members of this Department be granted ; the increased cost of living makes it very difficult for them to meet expenses. I earnestly hope something can be done for this worthv cause. ' MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 101 Alarms The total number of alarms was 368, distributed as follows: From street boxes....._.._............................112 :: " By telephone..................................................158 By local calls;_::..........................._...;... 72 BVfalse :alarms:....__...:...................................... 26 TotaL.......................-.....--....-.-.-......368 The alarms were answered as follows: Engine Company No. 1._............................... 65 Engine Company No. 2......................"....':.....".. 83 Engine Company No. 3.......................:...l...,. 93 Engine Company No. 4._.................................. 79 Engine Company No. 5._..... ..............'..:..:....... 83 Engine Company No. 6._ .........:!..I..................... 48 Engine Company No. 1...................................... 41 Truck Company No. l._..........................v'.".....~ 65 Truck Company No. 2._..................................... 46 Truck Company No. 3._'.:.............!:... ......: 56 Truck Company No. i_:.".....:.........-...:-.-.:.... 33 Chemical Company No. !._:.....:...:..,.....:........ 79 Alarms were divided as follows: Between River and Jones street.-...................194 Between Jones and Anderson streets.-... ........126 Between Anderson and city limits...........: 44 Outside citv limits._............................... ....... 4 Total..........-..-......-...-......................368 The largest number of alarms came from street boxes Nos. 17 and 35a total of 7 each. 102 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT The greatest number of alarms were received during the month of Decembera total of 61. January and April came next with 41 each; September with 14 shows the lowest of any month during the year. Tuesday and Wednesday is credited with the greatest number65, and Sunday with the smallest41. The largest number occurred between the hours of 6:00 p. m. and midnight150. The smallest number between the hours of midnight and 6:00 a. m.a total of 88. Causes The causes, as ascertained, were as follows: Smoke issuing......................................................2T3 Explosions.......................................................... 36 Foul chimneys................................................... 29 False and test..._................................................. 26 Beyond city limits............................ ................ 4 . Total........... ...................... ........................368 Of these 73 occurred in brick or stone buildings, 224 in wooden buildings, and 45 in other than buildings. They were brought about in heating 185, in illuminating 100, in other ways 83. The fires were found in dwellings 160, in business houses 122, in other than buildings 86. The direct causes of fires were attributed to the following: Careless children................................................. 28 Electric wires....................................................... 6 Overheated stoves........................................... 14 CarelessnesSu....................................................... 56 Defective construction..................................... 34 Defective flues....._.......................................... 40 Incendiary and supposed incendiary........._..... 8 . MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 103 Flying sparks...................................................... 33 Unknown............................................................. 30 Explosions............. ........................................... 36 Foul chimneys.................................................... 29 False and test................................................... 26 Beyond city limits............................................. 4 Others.................................................................... 24 Total............................................................368 "f-wo hundred and seventy-three (273) were confined to points of origin or before they had made any headway. Thirty-four (34) were confined to the floor on which they originated. Twenty-four (24) were confined to the building in which they originated. Eleven (11) extended to adjoining buildings. Fires were extinguished as follows: By chemical streams......................................140 By hydrant streams............................................ 62 By engine streams............................................ 29 By bucket of water.......................................... 71 Out when Department arrived.......................... 66 Total...... ..................................................368 Losses The total loss for the year was $124,887.00, divided as follows: On buildings.................. ................... .$52,251.00 On contents....................................... 72,636.00 104 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT The greatest loss occurred during the month of October and the smallest during the month of July. The following comparative statement is respectfully submitted: 1890.... .'.. ...........169 $139,486.84 13.2 1891........ ........190 345,265.84 19.2 1892..... ...... ....,...-208 166,837.46 11.8 1893.... ...... ........183 172,986.39 7.8 1894..-. .......... ...,168 ' 452,407.36. " 9.6 1895..................:...179 112,645.26 5.8 1896....... .............196 390,970.23 11.2 1897..............:......195 96,293.75 4.3 1898....... .............293 440,630.78 10.2 1899... .................238 153,599.83 6.4 1900.... .................225 41,837.00 ' 3.3 1901.... .............263 61,743.75 . 5.7 1902.................... .261 54,157.50 3.6 1903.... ... .............263 93,675.90 6.5 1904....................286 183,420.50 10.2 1905.....................315 .. 80,232.50 : 2.6 1906.....: ................280 119,720.98 4.3 1907...................259 291,107.00 8.9 1908.... ................258 171,465.00 5.3 1909....................341 187,141.00 5.4 1910.....................368 124,887.00 2.8 In conclusion, I beg to submit the attached tabulated statement of alarms, fires, their causes, location, etc. I desire to extend my thanks to his Honor the Mayor, and to the Honorable City Council, to the Committee on Fire, for the prompt and favorable response to such requests as I have made from time to time; to the Police Department for their: co-operation and assistance at fires and to all the City Officials for the many favors and interest they have manifested in the well-being of the Department. MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT 105 To my assistant, J. J. Connolly, I am under obligations for assistance and courtesy shown, I also desire to thank the Electrical and Fire Inspectors and my clerical force for assistance rendered. To the officers and men of the entire Department I have naught but words of praise. They have worked hard and faithfully when required to do so. They have been prompt and courteous at all times, and I would futher extend grateful acknowledgement for the assistance rendered and the faithful and efficient manner in which they have performed all their duties. To the Press and public in general I desire to return my sincere thanks for the compliments received for the good and efficient work done by this Department. Respectfully submitted, THOMAS BALLANTYNE Superintendent Fire Department. 4 A 106 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Value of Property'and Loss by Fire1910 Percentage of Loss to Property Involved, 2.8 per cent. MONTH January. . ......... February .... .... May. . . ... June. ....... ..... uly... -. ..... August... .. . . . September .......... October. ... November ... December. . . ... Totals..... __ .. Value of Property Involved $ 206,180.00 307,520.00 273,125.00 307,425.00 285,900.00 90,800.00 133,200.00 307,275.00 226,050.00 235,540.00 545.525.00 1.512,715.00 $4,431,255.00 LOSS Buildings Contents $ 1,314.00$ 1,705.00 3,201.00' 16,574.00 1,396.00 1,206.00 804.00 2,763.00 3,843.00, 2,267.00 21,726.00 12.375,00 42.00! 193.00 308.00 18.00 640.00, 205.00 6,694.00 30,426.00 9,629.00 3,349.00 2,654.00 1,555.00! $52,251.00 $72,636.00 Total Loss $ 3,019.00 19,775.00 2,602.00 3,567.00 6,110.00 34,101.00 235.00 326.00 845.00 37.120.00 12,978.00 4,209.00 $124,887.00 Alarms, 1910Manner of Receipt MONTH May... ..................... ....... June. . . . . ................ . . . . . July.-.-. ..... ................. August.- . ............................ Totals _ --_-------_--_---_.----- +*Sg&* 9 10 14 13 10 8 2 6 11 20 112 .sSo o *". g 14 13 IS 15 7 10 4 9 8 15 26 158 8 o _> 11 3 3 8 6 g 4 ^ 1t fi ^ e> 7? j!"3 fc, f: 9! Q '?, 1 6 3 ? 1 1 3 26 "a 1 41 29 33 41 32 If. ?\ 16 14 2fi 33 61 368 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 107 Alarms, 1910Causes of Same MONTH February. ..... ..... ............... April........ ...................... July................. ........... August ..-.. .................... September...... ............... ... November. . . .............. . . December. ................... . - . . . Totals.. ...... ..... ........ .JP 11 en 26 21 26 26 26 15 16') 8 20 28 52 273 Explosions 4 a ft 1 > 1 4 1 ft 36 Chim Foul neys 8 3 1 7 1 1 1 > 2 ? 1 20 o ** *j 0! 3S & 0 > 1->, 7 3 a o J 3 :>6 ^j o M O 1 1 1 1 4 W 1 H 41 20 33 413"' o-> 21 10 14 263"> 61 36S Origin of Fires, 1910 MONTH February. In Heating _g 1 Q 10 9 March __ .... 13 April--....-..- 10 May ....... 5 Tune......... 2 July 2 Septemper . . November. December .... Totals... 1 3 9, 4 15 76 , 3m 5 6 5 _ S 1 2 x ' O ; H 3 2 18 17 4 22 6 7 8 23 8 21 1 2 i 5i 4 1 7 9, 1 1 7 8 54 3 6 2 6 2 S 3 18 14 41 1 55 185 Illuminating i ^ o 3 3 8 ' B : s - 2 3 C 0 RJ ' O H 4 3 2 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 3 . f, 3 1 2 2 ft 5 4 4 7 42 41 3 Miscellaneous M t ' i i e 1 1 6 c : K o 10 ' 8 6 5 fi <> 5 1 2 JO <> 10 ' 4 7 ' R 7 1 R ' 1 j 5 3 1 10 i 10 12 17 1 2 5 4 4 h 100 42 2 1 3 3 9 3 9 1 ft 3 o 27 3 1>> ? > i i 2 14 ! & 13 6 ft 6 S 10 ft 3 11 8 8 83 H o B* 1 CO w * to CO s g frHl I-* 1 1 3 5 ft t~4 Ctfl-.*-* >-( H- IO tO tO tO b OeDCOOOOi^'-'MOOWWOl HA rf** to to ** t1 to oo to k*** w *^| 4^- Co 00 H* *%! CO (W W Oi 00 Oi OWH- CO" - fcO W tf" N* CO H* >)--tOH-lOi COW>-)^WW >-*COi i i > *-*COH-bO' " 1 1 1 t t 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I t 1 I i 1 I 1 i t i i MONTH Brick and Stone Buildings Wooden Buildings Other than Buildings Originated Firin Confined to Points of Origin Confined to Floor of Origin Confined to Building of Origin Extends to Adjoining Property Conflagration X cj W*B O Causes of Fires, 1910 Electric wires...... ..... ........_........ Defective flues. ..,.__._.-_---.-.-.-.... Flying sparks. .....-_.-----...-....-..-.- Unknown __ ........................... Explosions. ............ ....-..........._ Foul chimneys. .....-......._......-....... False Out of City ... Others .. ._-. Totals ____ __ .... ___ _...----- January 3 3 8 6 3 3 4 8 9, 1 41 February 3 1 3 4 4 o 4 3 3 9, 29 1 a % 9, ?: 4 3 3 1 4 fl 5 1 3 33 1 < 3 9, 5 4 9, ft 9, 7 9. 1 3 41 1 4 9. Ft 3 1 9. 3 ft 9, 32 a a 11 1 4 1 1 1 ft 1 7 1 22 j*"3 i 3 2 4 > 1 o 1 1 1 4 21 8 1 < 1 1 3 1 1 9, 1 3 1 9, Ifi September !> 9. 1 1 3 ?, 1 3 14 October 1 3 5 9, 1 1 ?, 4 4 S 1 26 Xovember 9. 3 7 2 6 3 4 1 9: 1 1 32 December (1 2 1 4 7 1 3 ?, fl 1 3 8 61 1H 28 6 14 56 34 40 8 33 30 36 29 26 4 24 308 K) O 50 05 > 25 2! o 3 o OS 110 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Electric Inspector's Report SAVANNAH, GA., January 1 1911. MR. THOMAS BALI.AXTYNE. Superintendent Fire Department. DEAR SIR:I herewith respectfully submit my report from January 1st, to December 31, 1910, inclusive: Incandescent lights.................... ......... ...27,302 Electric fans...................'..................... ........ 485 Arc lights.................................................... 142 Electric signs............. ... ... ......................... 54 Electric motors.......................... ....... ....... 124 Electric clocks............................. ................. 1 Electric irons.-............................................. . 26 Picture machines.......................................... 3 Electric pianoa.............................................. 63 Sign flashers............................................... 3 Heaters...................................................... 11 Massage machines....................................... 3 Rectifiers.-..-.............................................. 18 Cash registers................................................. 2 Decorating street lights (Broughton street) 331 A total of 26,568 inspections were made and fees to the amount of $1,386.20 to be collected. The above includes inspections of wiring and other electric services for temporary work. J am, Very respectfully, E. O. KESSLER, Electric Inspector. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 111 Fire Inspector's Report SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1911. MR. THOMAS BA'LLANTYNE, Superintendent Fire Department. DEAR SIR:We respectfully beg to submit our report of inspections made during the year of 1910. There were a total of 18,297 inspections made, classed as follows: Inflammable materials in buildings and yards................. 458 Fire hydrants and fire alarm boxes blocked............. . . 34 Places that had fireworks stored on premises ............... 210 Dynamite and other high explosives found in places... .. 11 Defective wiring found, notified Electric Inspector._... . S Bars ordered across windows, open elevator shafts beneath them _......................................................... 30 Defective stoves, chimneys and flues................................. 978 Cellars and grating filled with inflammable material and trash .................................................................... 440 Places O. K. on first inspection............................ ............. 1,100 Broken window glasses ordered fixed................................. 91 Places that had gasolene on hand........................................ 400 Special duty performed, such as answering fire alarms, etc.... ... ...... ..................................... ............ 150 Metal ordered placed under or around stoves and ranges 235 Second call to see if orders were carried out................. .... 1,258 Telephone, electric light and telegraph companies' poles inspected during the year................................. 9,294 Total number of inspections.... ....... ......... ......18,297 We have been very attentive and watchful of moving picture shows every night from 8:00 p. m. to 12 midnight. We will continue to watch this class of business very closely. 112 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT * They have conformed to every regulation we have asked of them and show us all courtesy possible. In conclusion we desire to thank you for the confidence you have shown in us, and for the many favors extended us during the past year. We also desire to thank the Police and Health Departments for the great help they have extended us during the past year. Very respectfully, F. J. KILROY, D. S. O'CONNOR, Fire Inscpetors. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 113 Report of Fin Alarm Telegraph SAVANNAH, GA., January 1st, 1911. MR.THOMAS BALLANTYNE, Superintendent Savannah Fire Department. DEAR SIR:I have the pleasure to submit the following Teport of the Fire Alarm Telegraph Service for the year ending December 31, 1910. During the year 368 alarms were turned in over the lines of the alarm system. Telephones are credited with 158; the alarm boxes with 112. In addition there were 72 local alarms and 26 false. For nre......._....-........-...............................----.-.....-342 For daily test.....................................................-286 For false and test._......................................... 26 TotaL..........................................................654 The Fire Alarm consists of the following: 1 12-circuit automatic charging board. 250 cells of chloride accumulators (5 ampere hour. Type "B. T.") 1 8-circuit automatic repeater. 99 street boxes. 73 iron posts. 2 bell strikers. 7 combinations gongs and indicators 114 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT 2 18-inch gongs. 41 miles insulated copper wire Kos. 10 and 14; 63,600 feet of cable (joint use Fire and Police). 5 indicators. () electric trips. * 8 0-inch gongs. There has been added since the last report boxes Nos. 117, K5(), 215 and 413, together with one mile of insulated copper wire. The condition of the system is practically the same as last reported; very little trouble has been experienced in operation and only a few interruptions to the service. Where these have occurred the trouble was usually caused by the overhead lines falling or coming in contact with heavily charged wires during stormy weather. The storm of October IS damaged the overhead lines considerably and interrupted the service west of Fahm street in Yamacraw. During this interruption a fire broke out in the carpenter shop on O. S. S. Company's wharf and box 51 was pulled but did not come in; this is the only failure reported for the year. Early in the year all boxes and indicators were speeded up so that alarms now come in very rapidly, enabling the apparatus to get away from quarters without delay. I would recommend the purchase of a transmitting box to be installed in Sergeant's Office at Police Barracks, so that alarms given over the Police System could be transmitted to all gongs and indicators simultaneously. The details of this could be easily worked out and the cost would be approximate- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 115 ly $250.00; with this addition practically every Police box becomes a part of the Fire Alarm System. Additional boxes are badly needed in the southern section which is rapidly building up, and in which there are now only a few boxes. It is important that provision be made each year for placing underground a portion of the present overhead system, which removes the circuits so placed from danger of interference or injury such as they are constantly subject to while overhead. As an illustration I would cite the failure of box 51 on the Ocean Steamship wharf. Expenses Salary..........................................................! 750.00 Boxes, wires, etc......... .............. .......... . 382.50 Uniform.............................. ............ ........ 23.19 Total.............................................. ... $1,153.69 I am, Very respectfully, T. P. SAND1FORD, Superintendent Fire Alarm. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1911 C. S. HARDEE TREASURER ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER. Dr. Statement of Cash Received and Disbursed from January 1,1910 to December 31, 1910. Cr. ARDSLEY PARK CORPORATIONReceived for amounts advanced by the city as per agreement for grading, water pipes, etc.. BOARD OF HEALTH Received from sale of antitoxin, etc. BAY STREET STRAND Received for special paving $44,408.08 "71.20 225.00 ARDSLEY PARK CORPORATION Advanced by city for grading, etc., as per agreement- - - .. . 40,777.72 BOARD OF HEALTH Salaries of Health Officer, City Physicians, Inspectors, et. al. $10,050.01 .Expenses of Pest House........ 722.37 Antitoxin, printing, stationery, etc.. .................... 2078.08 Automobile and incidentals .... 3,000.28 24,050.34 BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY Salaries- ..-- .......... Instruments and incidentals. BAY STREET STRAND Labor and material..-...-.. .... 4,082.38 2,605.82 7,588.20 4,155.28 O c/5 > V. 50 W CITY LOTS Received from sale of lots on Bull street, Southville, Norwood ward and Springfield... CHIMNEY SWEEPING Received as fee. ...-__.....__., 7,077.74 138.50 CHATHAM LAND & HOTEL CO. Received for amounts advanced by the city per agreement for grading, water pipes, labor, etc......... ............... 60,818.02 BOND ISSUE, 187 Redeemed and canceled-.,.. CITY HALL Salaries and wages. .----... Fuel, lights and incidentals. CITY CLOCKS Salary and repairs.. . .. CHIMNEY SWEEPING Salary and. fees,.-. .... CHARITY Gift to the Elks........... Remission to Union Society... . - Remission to Orphan Asylum -. Remission to Westminister Presbytery....-.- -_._-- . Orphan Asylum .-._-.. Pensions and Clerk's list ..... 3,555.20 2,320.43 1,000.00 1.600.8S) 341.55 80.23 2,350.00 3,102.80 CHATHAM LAND & HOTEL CO. Advanced by the city as per agreement for grading-... 18,400.00 5,875.03 555.71 628.23 8,535.47 63,506.37 g | yo w v o 3 CONSCIENCE FUND Received by the Mayor through a clergyman...-.----._.-_ ELECTRIC FEES For inspection fees....... EVERGREEN CEMETERY Received for care of lots, etc. .. $3,688.15 Received for sale of lots____ - 2,260.77 Received for burjal fees.....--- 503,00 1,500.00 1,325.55 6,441.92 CITY LIGHTS Savannah Electric Company on account contract.._._..--... DRY CULTURE Labor and material--.... BAFFIN PARK Labor, trees and material...... DISPENSARY Salaries-.-..--.---...------.. Medicines and supplies....-.,_. Rent, lights and incidentals.... EVERGREEN CEMETERY1,020.00 1,460.05 813,09 Pay rolls.__................ 5,107.69 Water tank, retaining wall, gravel and toojs___.__... 15,824.75 24,673.83 9,107.00 5,937,55 4,193.14 w 2! w *fl o 8 20,932,44 i FIRE DEPARTMENT Received for "sale of old hose, etc. FEES Received from City Marshal.... GROUND RENTS Received from office collections. GROUND RENT LOTS Received from sale thereof... _, HARBOR FEES --..... Received through Harbor Master 134.28 1 243.66 6,714.87 6,941.68 6,059.90 FIRE DEPARTMENT Salaries..._....._........ 01,222.16 Stock, forage, shoeing and harness.. .-.--._-...-..-..-..- Repairs, fuel, oil and. waste .... Implements, paints, incidentalsUniforms... _---.--.-..--.---. GAMEWELL SYSTEMLabor and material._.:-.^.. HOUSE DRAINAGE Labor and material...__... 8,845.85 4,014'.69 4,414:56 3,906.21 112,403.47 HARBOR AND WHARVES Salaries,: repairs and incidentals. 7,404.87 4,584.42 jjj 5! 3,239.65 HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS, ETC, Received from sale of pamphlets 0.65 INCIDENTALS Received for permits, surveys, etc...----------.----.. 1,169.62 INTEREST Received for interest, bond money deposited-.....__.__.., 387.78 Received for interest on daily deposits._._.-._.---..._--.._ 2.688.80 Received from City Marshal.... 1,144.14 4,220.72 INSPECTION FEES Received for plumbing inspection.-. .... ...-...._....-... 502.00 HARBOR ADVERTISINGPrinting. .. . . ........ HOSPITALS Georgia Infirmary.. . . Park View. . . ........ . Savannah... . St. Joseph's.. .. ...... Charity.... ......... INCIDENTALSINTEREST Coupons of bonds of 1870. Coupons of bonds of 1883. Coupons of bonds of 1900. 4,500.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 3,000,00 000.00- Reception of President Taft and others...---......-.-.-...- 2,684.26 Settlement of claims for damages 1,135.35 Official bonds, stamps, etc.....-- 4,526.56 298.75 10,843.00 109,080,00 SO.OO 14,400.00 8,346.17 120,221.75 to to O 50 CO y. y. c r LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY Received from sale of lots __ - . 1,959.50 Received from burial fees..-.-. 1,818.70 3,778.20 MARKET Received for clerk's fees.... __ 12,679.66 Received for rent of vaults and stalls....-.-.-.--.-..---.-- 1,990.00 14,669.66 OPENING STREETS Received for interest. ..-..-..- 30.00 LAUREL GROVE Pav rolls....... ..--.-..-..-.-- 5,363.66 Lights, fuel, tools and repairs.. 626.90 5,990.56 LAW DEPARTMENT Incidentals.... .---.-..--.---- 600.00 MARKET Salaries..-,...-...-----..... 4,527.10 Lights, repairs and incidentals. . 1 ,439. 1 1 5,966.2 1 MAP (new) Salary and material . -...-....- 1 ,025. 13 OPENING STREETS Notes and interest......-...---- 24,258.30 OGLETHORPE MONUMENT CO. On account of subscriotion... - . 3.239.70 12; MAYOR'S ANNUALREPORT PARKS AND SQUARES PAVING STREETS Received from office collections. 80,564.44 Received from City Marshal...- 7,546,37 Payrolls,...,._........_. . 5,990.13 Material, drayage and incidentals....................... 4,288.67 10,278.80 PARKS AND SQUARES TREE PLANTING Labor, hauling and trees........ 4,524.25 O PARK PURPOSES JO t/5 Notes and interest.. .......... 33,716.50 PAVING STREETS Payrolls...-:...-............ 39,002.31 Asphalt blocks, bricks and curbing__.........-_........ 63,403.78 Hauling and team hire___... 26,007.48 6 88,110.81 Lumber, tools and incidentals.. 12,046.80 140,460,46 PLUMBING INSPECTION Pay loll and incidentals__... 1,770.40 PENSIONS Pay roll of police and fire pensions. ...................... 5,708.28 twi- POLICE DEPARTMENT Received from Union Station . - 1,800.00 Received from sale of old hose, etc..--.---------.-.-----.. 818.46 2,618.46 POLICE COURT Received from Recorder's fines. 23,56?.20 PRINTING AND STATIONERY Received from City Marshal for RENTS Received from wharves, horses, etc. ----.....-..-..--. -_-.- 585.00 1 POLICE Salaries..------- --..._..... 113,703.24 Horses, feed, shoeing, etc. ...... 6,753.45 Uniforms. ..-__-.-----.-..-..-- 3.130.68 Supplies, lights, autos and incidentals. ___-__-- .......... 7,813.10 131,400.47 POLICE COURT Fines refunded, and incidentals. 858.20 POLICE RESERVES Appropriation for military and PRINTING AND STATIONERY Proceedings of Council, circulars and reports-, ._...--- ... 4.715.88 PUBLIC LIABRARY J. M. Thomas, secretary. . . 5,5SI.60 E. Desverney, secretary . . . - - 300.00 5,050.60 MAYOR'S ANNl r 90 & O 90 Ni SAVANNAH DEVELOPMENT CO.- Received for amounts advanced by the city as per agreement for grading.._._.--..._-_..--_- SCAVENGERS Received, county account garbage contract... __.---.- Received from sale of mules, etc. RESURPACING'ASPHALT-- Notes and interest--...--....... - RESURFACING STREETS Pay roll, material and hauling.. SAVANNAH DEVELOPMENT CO.- Advanced by city for grading, 981.1)5 etc.............. ..... SALARIES Salaries of Mayor and Aldermen; city officers and clerks... .... SEWERS Pay rolls and material- ...... , 3.000.00 227.23 3,2?7.23 SCAVENGERS Pay rolls.......... ... Mules........... .. Forage.......... .... Lumber and tools ... Garbage contract....... 28,904.80 1,1)74.60 11,366.06 5 452.47 7,920.00 42,904.81 8,102.14 0 981.05 52.699.60 2,409.24 O JO c/5 r. > t-1 Mfl O 55,617.93 SIDEWALKS Office collections for repairs. SINKS Office collections....-..--.. STREETS AND LANES Received for sale of old wagon, etc...-..----------.------ 4,802.71 4,713.01 SIDEWALKS Pay rolls, asphalt and bricks. SINKS Contract_. ............... Salary and incidentals....... 4,305.94 1,238.24 SINKING FUND 12,101.51 5,544.18 Bonds of 1883, purchased and canceled..-.--........_.... 6,130.28 Bonds of 1009, purchased and canceled................... 27.252.42 SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS Industrial Farm.... __..__... 3,460.08 Rifle Range..... .......... 620,00 Roller.............. ......... 1,621.00 Conventions, etc............... 2.056.00 7,757.08 STREETS AND LANES Pay rolls..................... 53,562.81 Mules......... .............. 3,706.53 Forage....... ............... . 0,168.00 70526 Tools, material and incidental.. 0 7ii0.50 76,326.84 >< O en > M o O TAXES, 11)10(Specific) Licenses._-..----_._._..___... TAXES, 1910(Badges) Office sales.--- --.__.__._ NEAR-BEER LICENSES Office collections.............. WATER RENTS Office collections.............. Total receipts- .......... Cash bal. from Dec., 1009 Grand total.-..--_....-. 118,734.20 13,056.60 49,407.50 125,940.00 $1,242,500.80 54,435.30 $1,296,936.10 TAXES REFUNDED Amounts refunded by State law and action of City Council... WATER WORKS Pay rolls, fuel, oil, pipes and incidentals..... - .-._--..--.._ Total disbursements, 1910 _ Cash balance carried to January 1, 1911 .--. Grand total-------------- 0,024.84 74,718.40 $1,263,388.37 33,547.73 $1,296.936,10 C. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer. CERTIFICATE. We, the undersigned Finance Committee, C. S., have duly examined the book of the City Treasurer for months from January 1, 1910 to December 31, 1910, and find the same correct, with proper vouchers, aud,showing a cnsh balance of $33,547.73 carried to January 1, 1911. Signed, W. F. IrfcCAULEY, Chairman) ABE S. GUCKENHEIMER > Finance Committee Savannah, January 21, 1911 G.A.GORDON ) S > ! O 05 > If. Z c! > r W*d O ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WATER WORKS DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910 J. P. FIGG SUPERINTENDENT AND ENGINEER 132 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT WATER DEPARTMENT Committee on Water H. E. WILSON, Chairman G. A. GORDON- R. M. HULL CRAIG BARROW C. G. WILKIXSON H. S. Jaudon. ........ ................. .....................Consulting Engineer J. P. Figg........ ...... ................ ........Superintendent and Engineer T. J. Sheftall ................ .... .............................. .. .........Chief Clerk W. P. Bailey................................. .......Chief Water Inspector W. P. Ridle....... .........Foreman Extension and Repair Work Lawrence Cone......Ass't Foreman Extension and Repair Work J. L. Mallette j T. J. Reid ;..... .. .....Engineers Gwinnett Street Station F. B. Quarterman I S. F. Cook 1 . - c * ,. | ....... ......... ..........Engineers River Station H. B. Heller j 6 G. R. Small .......... .... ....................Meter Reader and Repairer J. P. McDonough.................... ........ Turncock and Gas Inspector Morris Schur...... ................... ......................... ....................Florist W. J. Kelly J W. J. Leonard -... ... ............... .......... ....... Compressor Oilers B. M. Cooper ) B. F. Horton 1 G. L. Kempt '....... ....... .... Oilers Gwinnett Street Station L. A. Stanneld I ' T. E. Whte } ' " ----- - ------Oaers River Station C. B. Patterson ) R. C. Fetzer i T. J. McElHnn '[ ' ' "- - " -------- Water Inspectors J. F. Wiehrs J MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 133 REPORT OF WATER WORKS DEPARTMENT SAVANNAH, GA., January 2, 1911 HON. GF.O. W. TIEDEMAN, MAYOR. SIR:- I herewith submit my annual report for the year ending December 31, 1910. The disposition of appropriation for the department and the work performed I submit in detail as follows: The amount appropriated for all purposes was $60,000.00 for maintenance and repairs, and $6,395.93 for extensions, including note of $1,395.93 from which the following disbursements have been made. Salaries, Maintenance and Repairs Gwinnett Street Station: Salary Account................................................. .......$ 25,424.02 Running Account........ ................................................ 16,865.76 Repair Account............................................................. 5,661.34 Incidental Account....................................................... 722.10 Stable Account........................................... .................. 579.53 Printing and Stationery Account................................ 395.87 Total........................ .......................................... $49,648.68 River Station : Salary Account............................. ......................... . 5,601.80 Running Account.......................................................... 2,418.59 Incidental Account...................................................... 181.47 Repair Account........................................................ .... 62.98 Total................... ................................................ $8,264.84 134 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Extensions Extension Account. .......... ...................................... 6,416.57 Improvements Improvement Account............ . .......... ....... . .......... 4,364.84 Meters Meter Account........................................................ 2,850.15 Collected back by City Treasurer............................... 428.60 Total................. .............. .. ....... .................... $2,421.55 NotesExtension Account Principal ................................... ................................ 1,329.46 Interest....................................................................... 66.47 Total.................... ........... .................................. $1,395.93 Total Expenditures............................................. $72,512.41 Appropriations and Disbursements Total Disbursements.................................................. $72,512.41 Amount Appropriated............................................ 66,462.40 Excess of Expenditures........................................ $ 6,050.01 Receipts and Expenditures Total receipts for year 1910...................................... $125,939.91 Total Expenditures .. ...................... .......................... 72,512.41 Leaving a balance of..... ........................................ 53,427.50 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 135 No appropriation having been made for water meters necessitated the taking of amounts from appropriation. From that sum the amount of $428.60 has been taken for which credit has been given above, and the balance is chargeable on account of repairs and purchase by city of five fire-service meters. The total pumpage Gwinnett Street and River Stations is as follows: GALLONS Gwinnett Street Station........... ......... ...... .... .........3,484,293,645 Daily Average................................... .... .... ........... 9,546,010 River Station.................... ........................ ............. '259,767,021 Daily Average................ ...................................... 711,690 Total Gwinnett and River......... ..........................3,744,060,666 Total Daily Average................... ............................. 10,257,700 Coal Consumption TONS Gwinnett Street Station........................................... ........... 4,888 Daily Average............................................................... ......13,4 River Station....................................................................... 771 Daily Average....................................................................... 2.1 Total Consumption............................................................... 5,659 Daily Consumption both stations...................................... 15.5 Extensions of Mains SIZE LOCATION FEET IN INCHES Abercorn, from Estill Ave. to 47th. St. 1332 16 Waters, from Indian Lane to River 300 12 47th St. from Abercorn to Bull 804 8 Bull, from 44th to 47th St. 900 8 York, from Abercorn to Dray ton 336 8 136 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT 44th St. from Abereorn to Atlantic Atlantic, from Henry to Duffy Duffy, from Atlantic to Paulsen 44th St. from Bull to Abereorn Bolton, from Magnolia to Reppard 41st St. from Whitaker to Bull 2568 300 708 804 600 336 6 () (i (i 0 6 Total.......... ... ... . . .. ...... 898S SIZE LOCATION FEET IN INCHES Laurel Grove Cemetery... ...... .................... 437 1*4 Cathedral Cemetery............ ............................... 275 1 Automobile Course.......... ................................ 600 2 Automobile Course......... .................................. 250 \% Automobile Course.......... ............................... ..1350 1 Total............ ................................ 2912 Total mileage of mains 72 miles and 4781 feet. New hydrants and valves have been placed conveniently on all of the above extensions and old hydrants removed and replaced by new sen-ices at the following locations: Fire Hydrants Wheaton and Harmon Streets. Maple Street near West Broad. Henry and Paulsen Streets. Liberty and Lincoln Streets. Habersham and Gwinnett Streets. Habersham and Huntingdon Streets. Montgomery and Huntingdon Streets. 36th and Lincoln Streets. Drayton and York Streets. Making a total of 664 in service. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 137 New Fire Connections SIZE LOCATION IN INCHES Liberty Theater............................................................... 4 American Agriculture and Chemical Company............ 8 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company...................... 8 Water Meters Twenty nine new meters have been placed during the year, making a total in service of one hundred and seventysix. Miscellaneous Broken mains repaired..................................................... 12 New valve boxes............................................................. 100 Water shut off for leaks................................................... 512 Water shut off for city taxes.......................................... 218 Water meters repaired................................................... 63 Leaks reported.................................................................. 9228 Inspections made.............................................................. 112,115 Re-Inspections........................................................... ..... 13,406 Cesspools repaired............................................................ 706 Gas meters tested.............................................................. 7 Leaky mains caulked...................................................... 63 Old valves removed.......................................................... 2 New valves placed............................................................ 2 New taps placed.-............-........................................... 210 Drinking fountain placed................................................ 1 Pumps, Compressors and Boilers I am pleased to report the pumps, compressors and boilers at both stations in good order. Buildings and Grounds The buildings and grounds have received necessary attention and are in good condition. fi-A 13S MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Recommendations I would again call attention to the necessity of increased coal storage at Gwinnett Street Station, as the present arrangement is totally inadequate and expensive. In conclusion, I wish to thank your Honor, the board of Aldermen and the employees of the Department for their cooperation in the successful management of the Department for the past year. Very respectfully, J. P. FIGG, Superintendent and Engineer. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GA. FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910 HARRY WILLINK DIRECTOR 1JO MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Director of Public Works HARRY WILLINK Chief Clerk to Director of Public Works LEE MASTERS Clerks to Director of Public Works W. ]. HAYES W. G. GEFFCKEN J. R. HAYM Superintendent Scavenger Department THOS. COOLEY Superintendent Construction of Streets and Lanes P. J. WINTERS Superintendent Maintenance of Streets and Lanes F. M. CORNWELL Foreman City Lot C. J. MELVJN Superintendent O. E. M. and Sidewalks J. H. GRADY Foreman Dry-Culture, East HENRY F. LUBS Foreman Dry-Culture, West S. L. PARKER MAYOR'S-ANNUAL REPORT 141 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR SAVAX.VAH, GA., December 31, 1910. Hox. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, SIR:I have the honor to submit herewith the Annual Report of the Department of Public Works for the year 1910. Full information is given under the department headings of the volume of regular work done, as well as that of an unusual character which was placed in charge of this office. The appropriation made by the budget for 1910, together with the expenditures during the year and balance of the appropriation or excess of the budget over the appropriation follows. The excess in paving streets is of course only apparent, the city receiving back from the property owners and railroads about 60 per cent, of all moneys expended on such improvements. Condition of the City's Paved Streets As practically the entire area of the asphalt streets were resurfaced about three years ago, they are in good condition. It will be necessary before the expiration 'of the guarantee on a portion of the vitrified brick pavements that same be relaid. The majority of them, though, are in good condition. The asphalt block area laid about five years ago is in good condition. The city's policy of substituting substantial material for gravel and shell pavements is appreciated both by persons who have the use of these streets and particularly by those who reside upon them. 142 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT I desire to again impress upon you the desirability of keeping these streets in proper condition of cleanliness. It is impossible to keep them in a sightly condition as long as waste paper is allowed to be scattered promiscuously. As in the past, ashes have been thrown in the lanes to such an extent that the grades are entirely changed, and I again earnestly recommend that the Police Department make docket cases against such offenders. Telegraph and Telephone Poles I would respectfully call your attention to the unsightly condition of our streets occasioned by the vast number of telephone and telegraph poles, and again recommend that appropriate action be taken by City Council compelling a yearly increase in the underground area now in use. Streets ResurfacingNotes and Work Department The amount expended during the year for resurfacing asphalt streets, in cash, notes and interest was $42,904.81. The work of resurfacing these streets was completed during the month of March, 1908. Catch Basins There were 1,307 catch basins in the city at the close of 1910, this being a net increase of thirty-nine. The expenditures for cleaning same and thirteen fountains during the year amounted to $5,127.50. In all, 16,766 catch basins were cleansed, an average of 1,397 times monthly. The thirteen fountains were cleansed 461 times during the year. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 143 Sidewalk Department There were 1,117 sidewalk repairs made during the year, including crossings and portions of paved streets, at a cost of $4,802.71. The amount of curbing laid was 3,760 feet. There were laid during the year under the supervision of this office, 210,151 square feet of artificial stone sidewalks at a cost of $19,285.30. The total expenditure for sidewalks during the year was $7,876.22. Street Crossings Seven new street crossings using 10,500 vitrified brick for centers were laid during the year at a cost of $256.50. Storm Sewers Department Owing to the fact that a number of storm sewers were almost filled with sand, thus affecting the drainage, it became necessary to thoroughly clean them. The expenditures for this purpose were large; particularly was this the case on the western slope of the city. The total amount expended in this department in 1910 was $2,159.30. There are now in the city 26.89 miles of storm sewers. The new additions to storm sewers for the year were as follows: 144 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT Storm Sewers, 1910 Rockefeller street from Bilbo Canal to Harmon.. Thirty-sevnth street from West Broad to BurThirty-seventh street from Barnard to Whitaker West Broad street from Thirty-fifth to ThirtyWest Broad from Thirty-sixth to Thirty-seventh Barnard street from Thirty-fifth to Thirty-sixth Lincoln street from Henry to Anderson. ....._.. Size of Sewer 12 inch 12 inch 12 inch 12 inch 15 inch 12 inch 12 inch 12 inch 12 inch 12 inch 12 inch 12 inch 8 inch 12 inch Length of Sewer o~n fcw>+. 350 feet 265 feet 265 feet 675 feet 300 feet 187 feet 375 feet 875 feet 300 feet 375 feet 313 feet 370 feet 225 feet 4725 feet Paving Streets Department During the year more paving was done than in any other year in the city's history. There were 7,612.13 square yards of vitrified brick pavements and 1:56,472.74 square yards of asphalt blocks laid during the year. The total amount expended was $235,698.74. On the following page you will find full information regarding the streets paved, together with amounts charged against the city, property owners and railroads. Streets Paved and Cost of Same STREETS Barnard--- ----- Bull----------- Estill avenue--. Fortieth-.-.-- . Forty-first .. Hall ------- HulL. .......... Harmon. ....... Montgomery .... Paulsen .... . Unnamed . . . Waldburg ....... West Broad. .. - . Thirty-seventh - - Thirty-seventh . . Montgomery Strand ------ Material Asphalt Block Vitrified Brick a*1 g 31,292.41 1,638.66 32,803.95 2,138.07 1,051.95 2,586.6 544.72 5,327.7 1,375.89 5,798.66 496.56 6,186.2 13,773.30 22.371.7 7,957.27 1,129.1 7,612.13 C$ *J +3 tn 0 0 HO $52 603.57 2,576.41 63991.23 3,001.37 1,917.10 4,171.96 982.02 10,147.67 2,272.97 11,061.64 840.05 10,622.21 21,298.26 34,899.70 13,292.96 1,750.28 3,718.35 o .** 1 ou $11,017.02 718.37 21,106.92 972.38 564.92 1,390.65 327.34 3,382.56 757.66 3,652.88 254.22 3,540.74 7,099.42 11,425.23 4,430.99 477.76 Cost toProperty Owners . $22,034.03 1,437.75 42,213.85 1,944.76 1,129.84 2,781.31 654.68 6,765.11 1,515.31 7,305.75 490.45 7,081.47 14,198.84 22,850.47 8,861.97 955.51 Cost tRailroads $19,552.52 419.79 670.46 84.23 222.34 103.01 104.38 624.00 317.01 ! ^ 8$$ $1.68 1.572 1.95 1.403 1.822 1.61 1.80 1.90 1.652 1.907 1.691 1.717 1.56 1.56 1.67 1.55 +J fel 0.*, 8l <3 $1.90.360 3.02.276 3.93.165 1.73.833 2.26.443 2.54.36 1.33.336 2.30.113 3.15.722 2.45.221 1 69.05 1.98.199 2.79.265 3.15.633 3.28.592 2.34.913 Width ofRoadway 45 45 2(25) 30 32 40 22 30 45 30 30 30 40 2(25) 2(25) 45 .3 tL a <5 V V >Jfc< 5787 238 5368 559 250 547 245 1469 239 1490 145 1786 2542 3619 1348 203 000 S > ! O c/5 r 50 w"0 O 146 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT House Drainage Department I respectfully suggest that such steps be taken to inform our citizens as to the necessity of a bond issue, that the city's sanitary condition on the east, west and southern portions of the city may be bettered by laying sanitary sewers in these sections. At the present time the sewage in residences in these sections is either taken care of by unsanitary and poorly laid storm sewers or by privy vaults. Some citizens who have perfect house drainage do not appear to realize the inconvenience of those who have not. Some means should be taken that citizens should understand the conditions fully and remedy them. Scavenger Department The tabulated statement below shows the work accomplished during the year in this department: May.... ........ July -------- October........ Totals.. ... Loads hauledby Scavenger Wagons City Dump to Loads hauled by Stieet andLane Caitsy Dump to x *S (U*2 C X> 3 03 i.o si* 3S 2,265 ,496 154 2,136 ,177 159 2,456 ,510 162 2,378 ,459 166 2,581 ,656 156 2,536 ,563 162 2,505 1,625 156 2,752 1,687 158 2,624 1,897 156 2,619 2,187 166 2,431 1,975 157 2,602 1,904 158 20,885120,136 1 No,Cars Garbage hauled Raiway by|County Farm to DEAD STOCK REMOVED * 3 158 7 155 15 164 5 165 10 180 8 186 12 197 9 193 9 187 8 195 14 186 11 169 8 1,9102,135 S i X 17 29 41 22 18 14 22 45 18 20 25 28 116J299 i o o 6 10 15 16 1 6 11 6 9 8 7 8 103 1 "3 O 7 3 7 3 4 5 3 6 7 3 5 5 2 1 O 5 8 3 1 1 2 3 1 7 3 3 5837 1 36 67 89 86 138 144 88 82 65 85 86 64 1,030 i S 2 i 3 i n ( 3 3 i i 2 1 5 MAYOR'S ANT NT UAL REPORT 147 Dry Culture Department A statement of the regular work of this department is given below: May..-.-.-..-..... June ............ July............... October. ........... December........... Totals.......... 2 1 a h 08s zo 62,525 77,425 116,255 120,175 124,625 89,970 . 84,105 87,005 91,105 87,910 96,169 115,590 1,152,859 No. Feet Canals Cleaned 14,725 7,275 14,500 37,350 30,885 34,170 49,570 11,245 15,530 23,120 11,480 249,850 Sa No.Cubic Feet taken from Traps 3 Q2O 2,440 500 6,860 1 ' <* 32,865 70,110 39,360 142,035 No. Days Worked 354 301 357 342 351 338 334 337 385 346 338 212 3,995 The expenditures in the above department for keeping ditches clean and clear of weeds was $9,132.08. Sink Department (O. E. M.) The expenses of this department were $5,559.68 of which $4,133.05 was paid to the contractor for cleaning privy vaults, etc. The details of the work in this department appear in the following statement: 00 MONTH 1909 December. ._--.. 1910 January......... 'ebruary-.--. .. July........... Totals ....- "3 ,M >, ll 550 08 24 22 02 72 80 00 83 47 40 50 00 722 ji Amount : $ 244.80 80.40 79.20 331.20 259.20 309.00 210.00 208.80 109.20 150.00 201.00 237.00 $2,599.20 [ Surface Vaults No. ICleaned 18 10 04 71 30 43 "3 355 Amount ! $ 40.50 07.50 42.75 144.00 81. (K) 159.75 27.00 07.50 20.25 90.75 45.00 0.75 $798.75 No. Barrels I 1Cleaned 1 1 ... 105 107 i Amount $ .5(1 .50 W... 52.50 $53.50 n J> > d| 1 18 59 3 11 3 3 1 101 Amourt $ 5.00 100.80 330.40 10.80 01.60 10.80 11.20 10.80 5.00 $505.00 |Cl'ed No.Dry Wells 1 . "~ 1 Amount i $2.50 -- $2.50 a tta X c to'S .... ;, i 3 1Amount ii $.-- 4.00 2.00 $0.00 Dry Wells No. Filled 1 -- 1 Amount $. . 4.5-) . - $4.50 Draws No. Surface Cleaned ... 31 c $ 31.00 10 10.00 30 30.00 20 20.00 103 $103.00 1 o $ 203.90 254.70 452.85 402.00 400.30 490.15 2(15X5 317.15 272.20 290.85 $4.133.()r, O JO w 13 o 50 H MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 141) Harbor and Wharves During the year the slips owned by the city were thoroughly overhauled and are now in good condition. The expenditures in this department which has a fixed charge of $1,500.00, were $3,166.95; the appropriation was $5,000.00. City Lighting Department At the beginning of the year there were 506 arc lights and four-fifty candle power lamps, since which time 200 magnetite lights have been added under the new contract. Under the present contract the open arc lights will be replaced at the rate of 150 each year by magnetite lights. Streets Resurfacing Department (Gravel and Shell) In addition to resurfacing and repairing the gravel and shell streets of the city, a portion of this appropriation was expended on heavy sand streets, where persons owning vehicles found it difficult to travel, and for repairing roads for the automobile races. The amount expended for this purpose, however, was in the nature of a permanent improvement. The total expenditures in this department were $8,077.81. Streets and Lanes Department The addition to the paved streets of the city during che year amounted to 26,435 lineal feet, or 5.006 miles; the cLy now has 49.966 miles of paved streets. The increase in the superficial area of such paved streets in 1910 was 144,084.87 square yards, making a total at present of 1,007,757.52 square yards, divided as follows: 130 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT Asphalt Broughton......... .. .. .......... ... ...... .. . .....17,950 Bryan............ ..................... ...............'. 619 BulL... ... ....... .................. .... .. ...32,831 Congress.... ..... . .. ... ......... .... . ... ... 5,539 Draytoa......... . ...... ..... ................. .22,522 Harris............. ......... ............... ....... . ...... 1,675 Liberty........... ..... ........_...,........... ......30,430 Oglethorpe Ave......... ................. . . .... .25,933 President........ .... ... ........ .. ............... ... . 780 St. Julian.. ........ .. .................. ............... . 1,088 York.......... . ....................................... 447 140,814 Vitrified Brick Abercorn.................... ..... ... ...... ...... .... 39,640.7 Bay............. .. ...... . .... . ... ............. ... . 9,381.9 Rear of City Hall.......... ..................... 227.7 Barnard............ .................... ... . 3,005 Congress lane.......... .... .................. .. .... . 2,086 Cuyler.................. ........ .......................... . ... 1,221.8 Gxvinnett. _..... . ............... ....... ..................31,695.4 Habershanx...... ... ................... .............. 19,956.48 Park avenue..... ........ ...................... ........14,208 President....... ..................................... 3,961 Wheaton................................................ ..... 7,256 Ogeechee road......................... . ........... .11,026.87 Jefferson........................................................17,228 Thirty-eighth........ ..................................... 3,875 Thirty sixth, west......................... ... ..... 9,100.1 Montgomery............................................... 405 Forty-second, west......................'................ 1,165.4 West Broad............ ........................... .43,120.9 Jones, west.................................................. 5,682 Berrien.............. ......................................... 2,351.1 Fortieth............. .......................................... 6,573.53 TattnalL...................................................... 1,231.6 Strand, east................................................ 3,399.47 Stewart....................................................... 4,663.9 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT 151 Price............ ...... ................... ....................16,585.2 Henry.............. .. ............. ........................12,917.10 Perry lane...................... ............................ 749.3 Broughton lane........................................... 1,917.3 East Broad..................................................10,408.3 Macon................................................. ......... 211 Thirty-sixth..................................... .............. 6,456 Roberta........ ............................................. 689.7 Whitaker...................................................... 18,295.7 Thirty-first. ................................................11,934.6 Drayton........................................................ 1,033.2 State._.......................................................... 2,862.35 Hall................ ....... ... .......:........ ................ 4,960 Wayne........ .. ........................................... 595.7 Harmon.................................... .................. 5,534 Gaston................ .................................... ... 1,550.5 Lincoln......................:................................... 689.0 Bay lane, east of Lincoln.......................... 122.26 Emmett Park.............................................. 2,453.4 Strand....................................... ................. 7,612.13350,131.46 ChertLouisville road.......................................... 4,377 Bay street extension.................................. 9,255 President...................................................... 1,280 14,912 CobbleBay................................................................25,660.1 Factors walk.............................................. 8,800 Lanes...........................................................11,786.1 Pine............................................................. 1,800 New............................................................17,214.9 Street Slip, North Bay.............................. 8,772.3 Reynolds..................................................... 4,200 Barnard..-..............-......... ..................... 3,420 East Broad................................................. 6,428 West Broad..................................................15,941.1 lo-2 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT West Boundary at Dump..................... 1,244 Whitaker................................................ 6,724.3 Orange....... ............................................ 660 Williams.................................................. 4,500 Williamson .. .......... ........................... 2,252 7,ubly..._. ....... .............................. ............. 2,645 Margaret... ..... ... ......... ..... .................... 7,000 Sycamore............ ..... .... ...... ..................... 711 130,758.8 Granite Blocks Bay............................. ........... .. ........... .... 1,707 Barnard............................ ....... ................ 1,049 Bryan. ..................... .. ... ...... ... ............ .... 7,362 Cohen.......... ....................................... 2,200.69 East Broad............... ..................... ........ 9,190 Fahml..... .............................................. .....10,100.2 Jefferson....................... ...........................21,913 Indian.................... ................................... 7,572 Railroad................... ............................... 6,097 Wadley............................ ............................ 4,309 Wheaton.................... ...................... ........ 5,000 West Boundary ............................ ......... 152.71 Water.................................................... 2,297 River...... ............... .................................... 4,618.1 New.................... ...................................... 4,391.64 Coffee alley.............................................. 634.8 88,597.14 Shell Bolton..........................................................11,700 Barnard.............. ........................................ 6,500 Hall............................................................ 4,752.8 Henry........................ . ....... .. .................21,000 43,952.8 Gravel Gwinnett............................... ..................... 5,666 Liberty lane............................................ 332 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 153 Bull.................... .............. .-.. 5,735.94 Harris.......................... .............. ................ 1,937 St. Julian.................................................... 5,244.9 Ogeechee Road.............. ..................... ... 2,333.3 21,249.14 Asphalt Block Gaston......................................................... 9,998.9 Bull............................... ...............................25,175.4 York.......................................................... 505.7 Abercorn..................................................... 1,556.71 Barnard................................................... 1,034.3 Park avenue............................................ 1,511 McDonough................................................. 2,194.91 Randolph......................................................10,365.5 East Broad... .................................... ........ 9,371.86 Jones......... ................................................. 9,120.9 Macon......................................... ................ 1,213.35 Charlton..................................................... 1,211.13 Harris........................................................... 602 Gordon....... ............. ....................... ..... 1,205.3 Perry........................... ............................... 587.9 Wayne......................... ................................ 657.2 President................ .............................. 758.2 Broughton..................................... ............. 2,589.3 Taylor.......................................................... 1,209.8 Barnard...............................................31,292.41 BulL_.._................................................ ....... 1,638.60 Estill avenue........................... ...... .....32,803.95 Fortieth...-........................................... 2,138.07 Forty-first.................................................. 1,051.95 Hall.............................................................. 2,586.6 HulL........................................................... 544.72 Harmon................................................... . 5,327.7 Montgomery.............................. ................. 1,375.89 Paulsen................................................. 5,798.66 Unnamed street.... ................. .......... .... 496.56 Waldburg._............. ............. ................. . 6,186.2 154 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT West Broad........ ... ..................................13,773.3 Thirty-seventh...... ..................................22,371.7 Thirty-seventh... ...................... ............. 7,957.27 Montgomery.... .... .............. .................... 1,129.1 217,342.18 Recapitulation Sheet Asphalt........................................................ .... 140,814 Asphalt Block. ........................................................ 217,342.18 Vitrified Brick....... ................. .................................... 350,131.46 Chert...... ...... ......... ................................................. 14,912 Cobble.......... .... .................. ................................. ..... 130,758.8 Granite Block ...... ..... ............... ..... ........ ................. 88,597.14 Shell. ...... ........ ......................................................... 43,952.8' Gravel .............. .................................................... 21,249.14 Total..... . ... ... .....................................................1,007,757.52 Cleaning Paved Streets The cost of cleaning improved streets is as follows: SQ. YDS. COST PER SQ. YD. Asphalt............._.....................140,814 $ 7,308.25 .0519 Cobble and Granite..............219,355.94 2,456.78 .0112 Shell, Gravel and Chert...... 80,113.94 704.25 .0087 Vitrified Brick._.._.................350,13l.46 10,538.95 .0301 Asphalt Block.......................2l7,342.18 8,845.82 .0407 $29,854.05 Repairs to Paved Streets AV. COST SQ. YDS. PBK SQ. YD. Cobble................................130,758.8 $2,190.20 .0161 Granite Block..... .... .. ... 88,597.14 1,602.10 .0192 Vitrified Brick....... .............350,131.46 2,010.05 .0059 Shell ........................... 43,952.8 498.15 .0092 Gravel and Chert ........... .... 30,161.14 463.82 .0112 $ 6,764.32 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 155 Chimney Sweeping Department The expenditures in this department for the year amounted to $604.23. Grading New Streets During the year the following streets have been graded: Twelfth Street Land Company Stevens street from Forty-second to Forty-eighth. Bullock street from Forty-second to Forty-eighth. Forty-third street, Forty-fourth street, Forty-fifth street, Forty-sixth street, Forty-seventh street and Forty-eighth street from Florance to Hopkins. Savannah Development Company Cummings street. Broughton street. York street. A street. B street. C street. The cost of grading new streets for the year amounted to $5,367.03. Granger Tract To complete the grading of streets in this tract the amount expended was $7,167.93, on the following streets: Reynolds street. Atlantic avenue. Battey street. Fortv-seventh street. 15*5 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT Ardsley Park During the year the following streets were graded in the Ardsley Park tract: Abercorn street. Estill avenue lane. Forty-fifth street. Forty-fifth street lane Forty-sixth street. Forty-sixth street lane. Forty-seventh street. Forty-seventh street lane. Forty-eighth street. Forty-eighth street lane. Forty-ninth street. Forty-ninth street lane. Fiftieth street. Fiftieth street lane. Fifty-first street. Fifty-first lane. Fifty-second street. Fifty-second street lane. Fifty-third street. Fifty-third street lane. Fifty-fourth street. Fifty-fourth street lane. The cost of grading the above streets, including curbing, amounted to $26,213.50. During the year the brick sewer for draining the properties of Chatham Land and Hotel Company and Ardsley Park Land Corporation was laid. This sewer was built of sufficient size riot only to drain these properties, but to drain the territory west of Ardsley Park, at such time as the city decides to extend it. MAYOR'SAXNUAL REPORT 157 The total cost of this sewer was $OG,74f5.94. Jn addition to this sewer the necessary laterals, varying in size from ten to thirty inches in diameter, were also laid at a cost of $20,441.19. Street Signs I beg to recommend that some action be taken to properly mark the streets. Not only strangers, but citizens find it difficult to locate streets, as they are practically without signs. Very respectfully, HARRY WJLL1NK, Director of Public Works. Appropriations i B I : 1 DEPARTMENTS s *5 ' ~< I O 1 *! JS O liui O e . v H & B a a .3 o. 5 a a . x a x a < . w : < ; w< Streets and lanes. ....... .... Drainage and Dry Culture. .... . _ . Sink Department O. E. M... .. .. Streets, asphalt, notes and work.. Storm Sewers. _ _ . . ......... .. Scavenger contracts with county.'. __ Grading new streets _ . .-....' . . Streets, resurfacing, gravel and shellStorm Sewers (new ^. ........... ... Chimney Sweeping. .. .... . . . Paving Strand. ..._...... ....... $82,500.00 50,000.00 55,000.00 10,000.00 5,500.00 5,000.00 42,817.512 2,500.00 6,000.00 8,000.00 2,000.00 27,000.00 (5,000.00 1,000.00 $ 74,845.26 47,457.85 235,698.74 11,132.08 7,867.22 5,550.68 3,166.05 42,\)04.81 2,150,30 4,287.17 7.300.00 5,367.0.'! 24,825.88 8,077.81 604.23 3,072.85 $7,654.74 2,542.15 867.02 ~i.~8~3~3~.65 340.70 1,712.83 700.00 2,174.12 1,000.00 SI 80,608.74 50.68 86.80 3,367.03 ~ ~2,077.8 1 loS MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT 1" If Of i 4* $74.845.26 C *! S 1o s w is i 8 $47.457.85 s 's $3,672.85 $5,559.68 8 it 8 I $24,825.88 $235,698.74 $7.876.22 55"o 00 1 782.66 $ $7,300.00 S 3 i . o r bo * yts, ............. and interest notes 'wofhanris... .................... 42,904.81 ........... 203,700.47 i............ 0 D k ji . Oi Jt Oi )C 2 ! 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Chimney Sweeping Division of Expenses, Dep 3 Feed for stock _ __..---.----.--................. Disinfectants. _ .... . ... .... Rent of telephones..--. . .......................... Brick ______ .. ..-.-.-.-.-.-................ Vehicles and repairs . . ......................... Gravel _____ ................................... Horse and buggy, Harbor Master.- . ................ City lamps. _........-.--.-..................-.. Repairs, tools and implements.. .................... Incidentals.. ... .......... , , Pipe.. .......................................... Insurance. __ ...... ........................^.... Vitrified brick. . .................................. Freight and car service.. ................ ....!..... Sand.. . ... ............................... Plumbing work __ -.... ......................... Artificial stone sidewalks.. ___ . -..........-.-.-.. Inspecting asphalt block __ . - ..................... Catch t>asin and manhole covers , m ,,_,, , Com. Sup. Engineers..-.-..-.--.--.-.-.--...--..-. Stevedoring _______ __ ._--------.......---_ Wharfage ..... . .... Asphalt block ___ .---.----.--.................. Material and tools. .-..--...-........-..... Cement basin Thomas Park Streets, notes and interest .. - ...................... Time of hands ___ ............................... TotaL ..--.-.--.-..-.------..-.-------.--- $ 829.00 26,295.02 690.75 299.84 4,417.10 2,468.97 2,192.52 2,705.87 4,656.76 272.00 24,467.08 9,087.28 1.599.75 600.23 4,133.30 7,696.59 772.82 47,945.09 4,842.41 657.01 767.00 397.51 476.70 41.85 1,305.16 331.13 4,001.00 19,173.76 4,632.85 28,924.64 303.70 2,555.84 474.35 440.36 4.231.98 945.00 1,946.50 358.80 5,802.30 1,600.74 7,300.00 112,217.19 3,422.44 175.00 42,904.81 203,790.47 $595,150.47 o f U5 S &3 $ 59.50 8,665.48 143.75 135.34 16.80 1,958.88 918.16 198.88 1,190.73 505.50 3.00 325.50 3.651.25 275.77 447.00 93.16 262.91 6.00 229.38 1,940.35 595.20 177.67 3.15 261.68 686.88 52,093.34 $74,845.26 o"* 03 35 S3 Jr'g oP $..-.... 72.95 1.50 37.00 84.64 6.45 25.00 .75 3.50 .25 .80 30.27 109.81 3,914.25 $4,287.17 1 Sidewalks Special Appn, $... ... ........ .... . . ..... . . . . ^ . ........ . ..... 4 OO1 QO 55.25 $4,287.23 4-t CO $---..-. 107.30 79.15 89.33 ...... ... 80.51 646.39 ..... 208.23 13.00 112.75 822.64 $2,159.30 Scavenger $ 68.00 11,381.33 547.00 24.00 135.04 1,068.57 799.30 6*2.75 53.99 78.13 126.50 224.37 320.00 261.35 12.85 7.50 2,692.50 22.54 37.17 24.75 76.69 660.41 28,193.11 $47.457.85 Dry Culture $ 340.00 325.59 132.70 480.37 5.00 64.72 17.00 15.15 32.50 79.56 450 10.50 4.70 4.50 39.70 7,575.59 $9,132.08 !? 6*e ?. " $ 19.50 126.05 87.18 33.00 18.70 858.04 40.95 4.63 118.35 31.05 86.45 2,248.05 $3,672.85 $--..... 142.43 8.35 3.00 4,133.30 -'2.5(1 1.50 10.00 1.60 ..... 37.00 1 ,200.00 S5,5.)!).GS . c c I 14C 109 272 1 6fi 1,305 14 0 32 12 I - a w ' "1!! r1 "-3-1 1,204.751 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^t *"| O ' Oi i i i O * i Oi t O i * Ot f >i 4- io 00 ioo Oi o8 '* Oi M bo Ol p CO IO b 00 4*w b> IO 00 5i Ol i yj OS Oi 2 io 'oso * IO 00 IO Ol * to CO Ol bs o oo -J1 io CO8ob 22 Ol CO -1 00 to bs o>p * 1 ioI 00i ei Si io! OOi si CH ) 2,248.95 si io; Si1 ~tm* f b" oni si Pi OOi1 $"' bs 1 3: oo! to] ssi r! Oi IOI1 ii Si coi IOI;1 *** \ o> I1 Ol i 1 1 co Oi 00i CO co 1 IO > toio c tOnC is ; CO Ol Ol COo IO Ol oK i 4 ' 9' i *; CO IO '-q Oi 1 1 358.80 -Oi IS 00 OicC o o* to i-'CP -JCO -JC t>.o cnS t * Ol o '. '; 1 io co i ' t< c h.) i c.~. s;1 B io CO JO b> o co to co 1- ^1 fO IO I --* Ol Ol ji -i 3u o o bcobsb Oi Ol CO Oi s IOIO Ol CnOO O OS Oi to cooico CO OOOtO o >R< } } t^ il*. OOS to >- (- SOOl * to oo co en In 00 4 CO OCnOrfo kj ioo tO i- en co bo OiOOicO I-- 'it" co cobs OO'Ol 3,445.00 Oi toco toioco I I ; | ; ; i 00 ' CO On iogo8 > Ol N-l CO >-' -4 0 OS Os 88; 'i; to co to i OSIO IO to p * 00 CO b CO Ol Oi O 1 *>3 Hfl s J10 OIO figg CO S OS CO Oi iO 8gg O3-^{C Oi gcoi oo ; 21 ; '-4 Oi ........ pCO CO ill 2; 10 i ib. ,f B^411 w[ fc] O i OOi ^ ; COco co; .* " COC1-4OOS OS OS O O CO cc> -j os o d to pi os co o OicO-11Os to oo Oiio CO i 10 S-O CO CO to to Ol O9COOSOOO i-' is 340.00 bs 4- to *. CntO OS tgs - 1 M Oi 5 00 IO to8 to Oi Oi-JOS ^gs fcog cob S8S .III 1C COo8' 1CO o COo 1 1!( 1 >-* S oo ! io 14^ oo 0^ f)2i OOCOO ii 008 i MOl i b 01 o o' 13 Ol 8S 883 s'SS oo CD\ COOl -4O1 IO-J O1CO co! g ; n S i >- 1 CO 1 ' Ol to H- o11I1iI;:1 I g -j CO to to C*5 W IO ** Cnp OiQ > 4 P00 CO1 1 i I! s; * Oi g $---_-.- 678.43 I1 1 Ii *>' i Sidewalks Special Appn. Storm Sewers Scavenger Dry Culture Paving Bay Strand 0. E. M. Harbor and Wharves Chatham Land & Hotel Co. Special City Lighting Paving Streets Sidewalks Ardsley Park Special Streets, G. & S. Resurfacing Twelfth Street Land Co. Savannah Dev, Co. Scavenger S. E. C. Contract with Co. Paving Streets Special Appn. Oglethorpe Mon. Com. Resurfacing Asphalt Streets Notes and Int. Chimney Sweeping Expenses, Department Works, Division 1910 I of Public ANNUAL REPORT OF, THE CITY ENGINEER OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GA. FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910 J. W. HOWARD CITY ENGINEER MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 161 CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT Office of City Engineer SAVANNAH, GA., December 31, 1910. HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor. DEAR SIR:I have the honor to submit herewith my annual report of the operations of the City Engineer's Department for the year ending December 31,1910. The accompanying classified statements show the amount and character of the work accomplished during the year and it is therefore unnecessary here to go into detailed explanation of the various subjects handled. The large number of public improvements which were outlined in my last report have been continued during.the past year and have kept this department busily engaged in order to cope successfully with the situation. Ardsley Park During the past year the improvement of the streets between Bull street and Habersham street, south of Estill avenue to Fifty-fourth street, covering the entire area of the Ardsley Park Land Corporation's property, has been completed. The same method adopted for grading streets through the Chatham Land & Hotel Company's subdivision, viz: cutting the streets below the property was adhered to in this work, it having been demonstrated that streets graded in this way are more attractive to the eye as well as most useful for the thorough and complete drainage of the abutting property. 162 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Storm Sewers The system of storm sewers designed for draining the Chatham Land and Hotel Company and Ardsley Park Corporation properties, covering an area of about 350 acres, extending south from Estill avenue to the corporate limits and east from Bull street to Waters' road, was completed during the fall of this year, and is now in successful operation. These sewers are showing their value not only as conduits for the discharge of storm water during rains, but in dry weather the seepage of ground water into them has so lowered the underground water level as to dry out this section to a marked degree. Sewers have also been constructed on Price, East Broad, Reynolds, Atlantic, Paulsen and Hannon streets north of Estill avenue. These sewers flow north, and at present empty into open ditches, but they are designed to ultinately connect with a main sewer which should soon be installed for draining this territory. On August 29 last, this city was visited by one of the heaviest rainfalls recorded since 1872, the precipitation amounting to 8.57 inches in 24 hours. Various parts of the city, including Springfield plantation and the southeast section, were flooded, the sewers in some of the lower localities being unable to carry off the water fast enough. Some parts of the city above the reach of back water were for a short time flooded during this storm. This was due to the fact that the sewers were not large enough to dispose of the water as rapidly as it accumulated during such an extraodinary rainfall. Nor is it practicable to construct sewers of such capacity. For the Engineer it is an easy problem to design sewers that will dispose of stormwater as fast as it falls, but the cost of such sewers would make their construction prohibitory, and would be an absurd undertaking for any city. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT ' 165 As a result of the failure of the canals and other drains southeast of the city to discharge the rainfall of August 29; a joint committee on drainage was appointed by the city and county to investigate the drainage conditions of this section. And in pursuance of the instructions of the committee, the County Engineer and the City Engineer were requested, to make, surveys and report upon the feasibility of eurning the surplus drainage of this section in a northernly direction, so as to direct its flow into the Savannah river instead of into the Casey canal and Vernon river. Accordingly, on November 23 last, the following report with plans and profiles were submitted to this joint committee: "It is intended, as shown by the plans, to extend the recently constructed trunk sewer on Fiftieth street in an easternly direction from its mouth at Waters' road to the extension of Cedar street, south of Damn Park; here the sewer will change direction to the north, following the lines of Cedar street, traversing the Seabrook lands, Baffin Park, Park Place and Cuyler lots to Thirty-third street, where it will again change its direction, turning east on Thirty-third street into DeRenne canal at the city limits. Of course, this sewer will have increased in size proportionately along its course from a 5-foot 6-inch sewer at its present outlet at 'Waters' road to a 9-foot 6-inch sewer at its proposed outlet at Thirty-third street and the DeRenne canal. This sewer will receive two large tributary sewersone a 4-foot sewer beginning at Forty-fourth street and Crescent and extending east to its junction with the main sewer. This Forty-fourth street sewer is intended to drain the low area immediately, south of Estill avenue and west of Waters' road, recently flooded by the excessive rains of last August and September. ' The Thirty-ninth street sewer as shown by plans, will only be extended for the present to Waters' road, but is 164 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT intended eventually to drain all that section between Estill avenue, Anderson, Warters' road and East Broad streets and also to take care of the discharge of the Thirty-sixth street sewer, which now empties into an open ditch at the Atlantic Coast Line Railway crossing." "The reason for selecting Cedar street as a route for the proposed sewer is, that the city has already acquired a large part of the right of way for this street, and also that this street is conveniently located for a sewer to drain a future eastern extension of the city. That part of this sewer where it crosses Waters' road to where it enters Park Place at Dale avenue is outside of the city limits. The construction of these sewers will, of course, mean the abandonment and filling in of DeRenne canal within the city limits. In addition to the trunk sewer above described, it is proposed to construct a 4-feet sewer in Duffy street, empting into Casey canal. This sewer will drain the Meadows and Eastville east of Waters' road." "It is proposed to enlarge the DeRenne canal at the mouth of the trunk sewer at Thirty-third street, and change its course, as shown on the plans, so as to form a junction with the Casey canal just south of Henry street. The Casey canal will also be enlarged and its grade.changed so as to direct the flow of water in a northernly direction to Savannah river, instead of south, as at present. It will also be necessary, on account of the deep cutting, from the Savannah Electric Railway (Bolton street) to where the canal will enter the Lawton lands, to construct a bottom and sides of concrete in order to keep the banks from caving and obstructing the canal. These are two practicable routes by which this canal can reach the Savannah river through Twickingham plantation: one following the Lawton Road to Jones' canal, the other to follow the brow of Brewton Hill to a junction with the eastern branch of Jones' canal, north of the Southern States Fertilizer Co.'s plant." MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 165 The canal running through the low ground will have to be diked to a suitable elevation in order to avoid flooding the low lands. A lock or flood gate will also be necessary to keep out back water from the Savannah river during high tides. Cross-sections of those canals, as proposed, are shown on the plans. ; It is further proposed to change the grade of the Casey canal as far south as Dale avenue, so as to divert its flow in a northernly direction in order to further relieve the Casey canal south of Dale avenue. : We herewith submit an approximate estimate covering the construction of these sewers, excavation of the canal, the' concrete section, necessary culverts, locks, etc. You will understand that these estimates and plans are only tentative, and are intended to give a general idea of the location and probable cost of this drainage system. The amounts shown in the estimates are based on contractors', figures and will probably be reduced about one-fourth, if convict labor is employed. A summary of the cost of this work will be as follows: Sewers Main trunk sewen............................. .............$121,925 Laterals............................................................ 47,200$169,125 : j Canals Excavation and embankment, 137500 Cu. Yds......-..-........-.~-...,...-..-..............-$ 34,375 Concrete Canal, Lock and two Culverts... 56,340 90,715 Totals.......................................... $259,840 166 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT "It may be'neeessary to acquire by condemnation or otherwise certain parts of the right of way needed for these sewers or canal. The canal, we believe, is designed of such a size as to take care of all of its tributaries now entering it or any which may hereafter be constructed. We are of the opinion that if these plans are carried out as intended, that the problem of draining this section of the city and county will be solved, not only for the present, but for the remote future." West Side Springfield plantation was flooded during several days after the heavy rainfall last summer. This territory is drained into the river through open canals and ditches provided with flood gates near their outlets. These canals are only operative as drains during the stage of low water in the river, and for this reason a number of successive low tides were required to reduce the great volume of water in the canals to its normal level. I think that in view of the above an investigation of the water sheds of Musgrove creek and Springfield canal should be made, looking to the betterment of the draniage of the west side of the city. This area is its main factory district and will require an efficient drainage system if its continued growth as such is expected. At the suggestion of the County Commissioners a meeting was arranged between the Chief Engineer of the Central of Georgia Railway, the Country Engineer, an engineer representing the owners of lands west of the city drained by the Vale Royal canal, and the City Engineer, with a view of formulating a plan for draining that section. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 167 The engineers met in accordance with this arrangement and after investigating the existing conditions made a report which was concurred in by all save the Chief Engineer of the Central of Georgia Railway, who took exceptions to certain paragraphs in the report. The report covers the drainage area of the Vale Royal canal and recommended that the ditches and canals be cleaned out by the Central of Georgia Railway whose dredging operations had caused them to be filled with silt, and that a pump be erected to discharge from the canal at the times that the flood gates were inoperative. All of this water shed is outside the city limits and only effects it indirectly. City Haps Following the recommendation contained in last years' report City Council authorized the publication of a new city map. The compilation and drawing of this map was completed and adopted by Council November 2, and is now in the hands of the publishers. One thousand copies have been ordered printed and will be sold by the City Treasurer at some reasonable figure. A large amount of time and attention was given this work, and it should be a valuable record for the city and of considerable value to the public. This office also compiled a small map showing the city and its vicinity. This was intended as an industrial map, showing manufacturing sites now occupied by various industries and sites which are available for manufacturing purposes, together with the various railroad terminals, etc. Two thousand of these maps were printed and copies furnished the various trades bodies; the balance were placed in the hands of the City Treasurer for sale. Subways The plans and specifications prepared by this office for a subway at Henry street and the Atlantic Coast Line Railway 168 " MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT were approved by the railway officials, and the contract for the work has been awarded the Gadsden Contracting Company of' this city; the work has just begun and will be completed within six months. This subway will have a roadway 25 feet wide with 12 feet headroom. There will be sidewalks 7 feet 6 inches wide on each side of the roadway; they will be elevated 4 feet above the roadway and have a headroom of 9 feet 6 inches. Another feature of this subway is that the sideretaining walls will be so constructed in front of the property on either side of the subway that all property holders will have unobstructed ingress and egress to and from their property and the roadway. The elevation of the bottom of this subway and especially of the sidewalks is such that flooding will be practicably impossible. There being no sewers accessible to the subway of a suitable elevation to connect with, a separate sewer will be constructed for its drainage; this sewer will be constructed along the east side of the Atlantic Cost Line Railway right of way as far as Park avenue; it will then follow the center of Haines street, to Bolton street, turning east on Bolton street to an outlet into Bilbo canal. This route was selected not only because it was shorter than any other, but traverses a section needing drainage which is not supplied with sewers. A survey is now in progress looking to the planning of either a subway or bridge at the Atlantic Coast Line Railway crossing at Thirty-seventh and Harbersham streets. This survey will determine which is the most practicable way to construct this crossing. Bonaventure The plans submitted for the protection of the bluff at Bonaventure cemetery were adopted by the Park and Tree Commission and a part of this plan was carried out during the year. The contract for this work was awarded to Messrs D. Powers & Co., they being the lowest bidders, the cost being about $2,000. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 169 The portion of the work constructed consisted of a training wall built of piles, fascines and stone, 200 feet in length in front of the bluff at a point where it was most needed. While this construction is not of a permanent nature, it will afford protection for a number of years, and even after the upper part of the training wall is destroyed by decay, that part below the water and mud will remain a long time, thereby preventing the channel from washing back and undermining the bluff. I would recommend that the balance of this training wall of 400 feet covering the entire frontage of the bluff be constructed at once, and that the space between the wall and top of bluff be filled in and terraced to the river. I would also recommend that where the facines have settled in the wall that this work be brought up to the required height, from time to time. Considerable work was done by this office in the new part of the cemetery in the survey of lots. Over 650 lots were located and staked off, and I trust that during the coming year that all of the work of this character will be completed. Civil Service Having been continuously connected with this department for the past twenty-five years, my opinion formed after careful consideration of the matter is, that most efficient service, and therefore, the best results, to be obtained from this department' can only be secured by the institution of suitable civil service rules governing the appointment of its officers and employees. Under present conditions every period for the election of the Mayor and Aldermen is a season of fear and doubt on the 6-A 170 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT part of employees as to their tenure of office. This produces a demoralization most harmful to the public service, and even at other times during his term of office the employee knows that upon a change of administration his retention in office does not depend on past faithful service; but on the contrary, is dependent on the ability of some one seeking his place to oust him by means of political influence. A man holding office under the above conditions does not have the incentive to that faithful and proper performance of his duties that would obtain did his tenure of office depend on his own ability and integrety. It is not human nature that it should be so, and the public suffers because the officer or employee cannot put forth his best efforts. I respectfully call your attention to the recommendations made in my former reports. I do not desire to repeat them here, but I trust that they will receive your favorable consideration. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 171 Survey of Lots with Plats for Private Parties Lot N timber 8....... ... .......... 28 and 20. . . ........... 32.. ........ ......... 91, 92, 93. ............. Sand 12.... . . . ....... 75-..--. .......... 39,40,41... .. ......... 54..... ... . .............. I 7. .................... -51, west half... ._.----.__ 3_ ___-__. ....... 8. ___ .--.-.-..-..-.. .... N, O, P, Q, R, S... ....... 121 and 122...... ....... 29, west part. _._.---_..- 6, west half _ ........... 36-. ................. 27, west part...... ........ '28, middle part. ......... 31....... ............... 12, north part of east half 46, east half..... ........ 41...................... 6...... ...... -....-.-.-. 4__ _ .................. 1 12 ___ ................ '20, west one-fourth; 21, east one-half... -------- 35 ____ ... .......... 14, west one-half... . .... 4 14, 15, 16---.. ---------- 24 .... ......... ------- 31...................... 24.. __ ................ 23 and north part of 22 _ 19...................... 2 153 __.-.-.___.-----.- 183..................... 182 ..................... Subdivision Block A... ........... . Block P. ......... ... Hull's, 79 to 86...- . . McNish..... ........ Hull's.. ............. Section 4... ------ .-- Block 3.. ...-----.-.. Trust Lot 1 ____ .. Heathcote Tything ... 8._ ... ---------- 16.................. 1 Ward Bacon Batterv Batterv Canty Charlton Choctaw Currietown Currietown Cuthbert Cuthbert Dale Dasher Dasher Decker Elbert Elbert Elbert Elliott Estill Estill Estill Falligant Garden Garden Garfunkel Gartland Gartland Gartland 172 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Survey of Lots with Plats for Private Parties Lot Humber 11...... . .. .. ... . .... 13.......... ............ 19,20,21,22.... ........ 23 --.-._._ . .. .... 66. ... . .. ............. 6....... . . ........ 89 and 90... ............ 63........ ........ ... 82....... . ....... . .. .. A..... ... ...... ...... 133.... ...... .......... 23........... ... ......... 15....... ......... ... 43, 44, 45, north parts. ..- 47, east part and 48, west 42, east part ____ ...... 47, east part and 48, west part -----_-_---- .- 43, east part and 42, west part.--..----.--.---.. D and 6, west parts.- -_.- 10, east part ____ ----- 34 and 35... ............ 11 ______ ............. 29, west part. ........... 23....... ............ . 33...................... 7O ft 51 1 72, 73, 74, 75.. ....... ... 4.. .......... ........... 58 .-.-. -..-.------ 1, 7, 15, 17, 19.- _ ------ 9, 11, IS...-.---. .-..-.- 97... --------------- 216 and 217 ...__.. ........ 227 ____ .-.--..--. -.-- 70 . - - 64. __ .......-.....--- 20... _ .......--...---. 1 and 2. ._. .. ......... 17, 18, 19-. ------------- 35, east half --.-._.-.--- 2. east half... ----------- Subdivision Block 15. ........ Block F ......... Block 1... ...... .... Section 3.. __ .. .... 3 ..-..- Section 3 ___ .___.. Section 2... ......... Third Tythinp Ward Granger Harden Haywood Hull Hull Tohnston ones Lafayette Lee Lester Lester Lloyd Lovell Lovell Lovell Lovell Lovell M. OglethorpeNew Franklin N. Oglethorpe N. Oglethorpe N. Oglethorpe N. Oglethorpe N. Oglethorpe Norwood Norwood Norwood Norwood Norwood Owens Padelford Padelford Padelford Padelford Pulaski Reppard Reynolds MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 173 Survey of Lotss with Plats for Private Parties Lot Number 8 ..... 49 ___ - - .--.--.-- 147 and 148.--.. ........ 44 and west part 43... 10 and west part 11...... 30, east part.... ......... 17 ... ------------- 39 ------. --------- 50 and 52- ............. 70_. .................... 1 .. -.- , 7Z...... ................ I and 2.... ....... ...... 25 __ .-.---.-...-..-- 30, north-west part __ .. 6, west one-halt; 7, east one-fourth and west three fourths. . ........ 148 -----. --------- 262.-...-.-.-..--...... 86 .----------.----. 200 __ . ----.-.-...-.... 8 ----... --------- 12 and 13...... ......... 35 ------------------ 19 42 ... B, east part. ............ 39, 40, 41__._-_. --.-_-.. 59 and 60..---..--...... 92 and 93 _ ------ _ ... Z....... ................ 1 ____ . .............. 4 _ -.--.---..--.-.-..-. 83 _ . .--- ---..-- 44 10 ... 1 ... -.-.- ... .. 9 Subdivision Block 13... .......... 3 . . - ... East of Bull St __ -. West of Lincoln St. Yamacraw (Sub. 2).. 35 to 39-... -------- 30 to 45-- _ -..-.. Ward Schley S. Oglethorpe S. Oglethorpe S. Oglethorpe S. Oglethorpe S. Oglethorpe Southville Southvillc Southville Southville Southville Stephens Stiles Stiles Telfair Telfair Telfair Telfair Troup Trustees Garden Wadley Wadlev Wadley Watson Wharf Lots Wharf Lots Wharf Lots White White Wright Wylly Wvllv Miscellaneous Measurements and Surveys Measurements of cement sidewalks on the Strand, between Barnard and Jeflerson streets. 174 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Survey of the Axson property in Canty ward, showingarea of streets, lanes and park needed by the city. Locating outlet for Fiftieth street sewer at DeRenne canal and Waters' road. Survey and sounding of Savannah river at foot of East Broad street. Survey and laying out of new base ball park "on Bolton street, east. Locating Myers' Park, in Myers ward, for the Park and Tree Commission. Measurements of new cement sidewalks laid in Bonaventure cemetery. Locating catch basins on Harmon and Paulsen streets prior to paving same. Locating site for Bartow and McLaws Monuments in Park extension, north and south of Confederate Monument. Measurement of curbing at corner of Forty-first and Whitaker streets. Measurement of vacant lot at southeast corner of Drayton and Charlton streets for Y. M. C. A. Measurement of curbing laid in front of lots 13 and 14 LaFayette ward. Survey of roadway south of Factors' walk, between Bull and Drayton streets, for improving same. Survey to show present condition of East Broad, Abercorn and Barnard street slips. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 175 Survey of Calhoun square, to show proposed roadway through same. Survey of squares on Abercorn and Barnard streets for proposed paving around same. Survey of lots 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96. and lot 9 in Section P, Bonaventure cemetery. Survey of lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 of the Bonaventure subdivision (Parson's Tract) to show area. Survey of Perry street, from Montgomery to West Broad street. Survey of lots E toS (inc.) of the McNish tract in Colding ward. Survey of lots 10 and 15, also 18, 23, 26, 31 Barstow subdivision in Canty ward, for opening Fiftieth street. Establishing centers at the following intersections: Park avenue and Drayton; Park avenue and Bull; Drayton and Gaston; Jones and Drayton; Jones and Whitaker; Broughton and Drayton; Bull and Broughton; Broughton and Whitaker; Broughton and Barnard; Congress and Bull, to aid in illustrating the manner of turning coiners according to traffic ordinance. Measurements of cement walks in Forsyth Park and extension, on north side of Park avenue from Drayton to Whitaker street; east side of Whitaker street from Park avenue to Gaston street; south side of Gaston from Whitaker to Drayton street; north side of Hall street from Whitaker to Drayton street. Measurement of old curbing on Thirty-seventh street, from Bull to Florance street. 176 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Measuring width of roadways on Hall street, between Price and Harbersham and Barnard and Whitaker, and on Henry street, between Bull and Price streets. Survey of 630 lots in Section K, Bonaventure cemetery. Relocating "Springfield Redoubt" on Railroad street, west of West Broad street. Survey of lots 248, 249 and 250 in Sec. P, Bonaventure cemetery. Survey of Casey and DeRenne canals and extension of same to Savannah river for proposed county and city drainage. Survey of lots Nos. 1, Sec. M, and 1 Sec. N, Bonaventure cemeteryLocating catch basins at southeast and southwest corners of Forty-seventh and Atlantic streets. Locating catch basins on Abercorn street, between Bay street and Gaston street, prior to paving same. Locating catch basins on Paulsen, Reynolds, East Broad and Price streets, north of Estill avenue. Locating four catch basins at the intersection of Harmon and Forty-first streets. Survey of lot 29 Sec. A, Bonaventure cemetery. Survey of lots 33 and 40 in Canty and Schroder wards, for the opening of Paulsen street, and Forty-ninth street lane. Establishing line between "Old Water Works Tract" and Pierpont Manufacturing Company's plant. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 177 Measurement of Streets Paved Street President. . . . _ .... Hull ....... ... Perry ........... Charlton __ ...... Thirty-sixth ...... West Broad _ . ... Fortieth __ ...... Hall............. Hall..... ....... - Bull-....--..-.-. Unnamed ___ . . . Barnard __ ..... Forty-first.. --.... From Bull. __ . ...... Drayton ..-.-- Bull............. Bull... .......... Gwinnett__----.. Gwinnett........ Brougbton _ . ... Thirty-first ....... Jefferson ..-.. Whitaker _ ..... Bull . ___ .... Estill Avenue.-.. Bull...... _ .... Broughton.------ Gaston. _- - .. Bull -.--.--. To Whitaker . . . . . Whitaker ....... Whitaker _._-__ Whitaker..---... Whitaker. ....... Whitaker.. ...... Ogeechee Road- Wheaton __ , - Liberty Square. . . East Broad.. .... Fortieth --...... West Broad...... Price __ --...... Waters' Road..-. South of Fortythird Bull.. .-..-.-. Congress...--.--. Fortieth...-. .... Whitaker _...__. Purpose Assessment Assessment Assessment Assessment Assessment Assessment Assessment Assessment Assessment Street Lines Given During the Year Lot Humber 64 and 55 ... ........ 56, west half ____ ----- 40 to 44 inclusive. ------- 68 to 74 inclusive. ...--.. 75 ___ .. ___ ........ 8, 9, 10, 11, 12...--.-.-. 1 _______ ....-- -.- 10 _____ .......-...-.- 112 and 113 ...-.----. 6 __ .-..-.,-.-.--- 12, north part. .......... 60 -_-.-.------- 6 ____ .-.....----... 9 and 10 . ... _ . _ . 50 _______ ..... _ .. 14, 15, 16 -. - . 30. and south one-half 31. Subdivision Block D___ ...... Block F-... ......... Section 3- ...--....- Ward Ballantyne Battery Battery Battery Battery Cuthbert Dale Dasher Elliott Estill Fallie-ant 178 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Streets Lines Given During the Year Lot If umber 28. ......... ______ 34, and east one-half 33 52. west one-half andSl . 9 ... ..-.--.--..... .. 47- __ ............ .. 8, east half...-..-. .... 49 ______ ....... . .. 30. north part. ... ... 29 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. .. . . . ... 6, 7. 8. 9.. .......... 61.-- _ ... ..... ... 13.-.-..-.-- . ... 101, 102, 103 ..... ... 121 and 122 .... ....... 33 __ . ___ ... Part of Tract. . . ...... KL ------ ........... 10..... . .. ...... 124........ ........... 67,68,69..-..-----... Ill ___ . _ . ...... 39, and east half 38 _ . 16 _ ............ _ .. 133. __ ............. 240 to 243 inclusive.... 90. ___ ---..-..-.... 1.2, 3,4.. . . .-...- land J... . ... .. .... 6, part.. ...... . ..-.. .. 25 ___ ....... ........ 25..... _ .......... ... A. B.C.D.. ..-.... 32, east half. ...... ... 31, Lester... .......... 11 _ ... ............. 72.................... 8 __ ................. 7.8.9.---.-....-..-.. Y and W, south parts.. 6 .... . ... 3.. ..... ........ ... 69 and 70.. .......... 11 79,80,81---------. AA, BB, CC, DD .... 22, 24, 28, 25, 29, 32, 33 Subdivision .- Block F... ......... . BlockS....... ... Block 1 ._ Section 4... ....... .... .. 42, 43,44, 45-. .-.- * _ - Kings, Section 3. _ . Ward Falligant Flannery Franklin Granger Griffin Gue Gue Gue Harman Hull Hull Johnston Lee Lee Lee Lester Lester Lovell Lloyd Lloyd M. Oglethorpe M. Oglethorpe Norwood MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 179 Street Lines Given During the Year Lot Number 5,6, 7 _---- - .- 24, and west part 25...... 46 -----.--..-.- 43... ............ .... 103 and 104..---..-.....- 60. _ ..... ...... ....- 35 and 36, parts _ ....... 44...................... 64, 65, 66, 67, 68... ...... 20, south half ......... 17 and 18 ............ P ... 58 ................... 19.-.........-.-...-..-. 127 and south half 128--- 49. .... ____ ........ 144 and 145..- --.----- 112.. ...... ............. 44 and 45. .............. 6Q....... ............... 10, and west half 11__. ... 29 .... 32 and 34... ............. B, 2and 4.......... ..... 7,9, 11................. 230 . -..-... ......... 1. __ .................. 15, 16, 17 24... ..-.-. ............. 5 25- . 19 . . 17, east half... --_-..-.-. 32 261 __ ..-...-...--.--.- 87, west part--- .-.-- 156 to 166 inclusive ...... 201,204,205,206..----.. 102 .. ...... 8 and 0 _ ............... 121 and east part 120.. ._ 12 and 13............... 6 26, east one-third ........ 28, west half __ ........ 31.,.. ................... 32 ........... B . ....-...-.- Subdivision Section 10 ____ . ... 11 and east half 12 ... 34 ___________ . 16, 17 --. Block 7 --.-.---.... Block 13 ......... Ward ^^orwoocl "NT o nxTfwwl Norwood Padelford Padelford Padelford Reppard Schwarz S ch'ws, r *f S. Oglethorpe Southville SouthviUe Springfield Springfield Stiles Stiles : Stiles Telfair Telfair Telfair Telfair Telfair Troup Troup Troup Troup Wadley Wadlev 180 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Street Lines Given Daring the Year Lot Humber B and C ..... ........... 9 _ .................... I-.-...---.-..-.. ....... G-. ..................... 48...................... 76..................... 59 and 60 _ ............ 75 .............. 19. east part.... ... ..... 9 and 10...... . . ....... 1 __ ._ . ... . . . 14.. ...... .............. 26, south part. .......... 14, 15, 16, 17.... ... ...... 11 and 12....... . . ..... Subdivision Section 10. .. East of Lincoln St.... West of Lincoln St... --.-.-----.. ...... . Ward Wadley Waring Waring ^V&tsort Watson ^V&tson Wharf Lots Wharf Lots White White Wright Wright Grades and Lines Street Fiftieth ...... .... Habersham.. ..... Price ____ ... ... Battey _ ... .... East Broad.... . . Reynolds... . . . Reynolds.. . ... ... Paulsen... ....... Forty-first lane . . . Estill Avenue.. Forty-fourth __ Forty-fourth __ . . Forty-sixth __ ... Forty-seventh Forty-seventh West Broad __ .. From Waters' Road Fifty-fourth ___ . Fiftieth _ - South of Thirtyeighth Forty-seventh. South of Thirtyninth Fiftieth- . _ .- S. of Thirty-ninth Forty-sixth. ----- Fiftieth ___ ..-- South of Fortieth. Fiftieth lane .... . South of Fortieth. Habersham.-.- .. Battey. _ ...... Ott.. __ ....... Battey _ -.-.... Paulsen _ . -.... Battey ..-- --.. Thirtv-fifthTo Estill Avenue. ... Estiil Avenue.... Forty-first. _-.__- Estill Avenue.. Fortieth lane __ . Ef.ti'1 Avenue.. -- Estill Avenue.... South of Fortieth. Estill Avenue.. .. Forty-fourth. Forty-first lane... Ott.--. --------- Price __ ------- East Broad.. _ . Waters' Road Crescent . Atlantic. ------- Reynolds.---.- - Thirty-seventh. . . Purpose Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 181 Grades and Lines Street Hull... ... ....... State __ ____ Rockefeller lane... Lincoln ____ ... Lincoln __ __ __- Price ______ .. Estill Avenue...-. Forty-f ourth. Forty-fifth ___ _. Forty-si xth ....... Forty-eighth. Fiftieth... ..--_-- Fifty-first ......... Fifty-second... .. Fifty-third __ .... Fifty-fourth __ .. Macon (s. s.) . Waldburg.---- .. Best (s. s.) ___ .. Montgomery __ _ . Bav... __ ...... Jefferson (w. s.)--- Bull (e. s.)... -.-. Bull(w. s.)-..--._ Abercorn. ........ RothwelL. ___-_._ Millikan... ------ Barnard (w. s.)--- Fifty-second.. . Strand _ -------- Strand _ ........ West Broad ____ Hull (s.s.). ------- Forty-first ......._ Abercorn. ........ From Thirty-fifth ..... Anderson... _-... Bolton _ -....--- Bolton . ....... _ Bolton... ....... . Bull. ......... West Broad.... . . Bull... .----.... _. Bull.... ......... . Bull--......--... Bull. . ....-.. Bull.. .......... . Bull. .... .... .. Bull... ........ Bull. ......... .... Bull... ....... Bull... ....... Bull ......- Barnard.-.-.-. .. Broughton .... . Barnard. -------- Forty-second. Estill Avenue Best ____ .... Bay ........ ---. Harris...-. ...... Thirty-fourth .... Estill Avenue.. . Abercorn --_-.-. West of Whitaker 90 feet, west of W Atlantic. -.-.--.. Estill Avenue...- EstiU Avenue... . To Bilbo canal ----- . Thirty-sixth _ .. Henry. __ .--... Waldburg ___ ... Waldburg... .... Waters' Road.. W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham Drayton -.-.. Charlton _ ..... State ___ . .... East Broad. ----- West, 300 feet. . Montgomery ----- Congress...-. .... West Broad __ .- Best _____ -... Henry.. -------- Fifty-fourth ...... S. of Forty-third Oglethorpe Ave... Thirty-sixth . . . . Fifty-fourth Bull.... ----- Fortieth _ .... est Broad. _ ...- Bull. - ... Paulsen. .......... Bull............. Fiftv-fourth,. .... Purpose Sewer ***** W**f Sc\vcr Scvtrcr S61V61T Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb. Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb CurbCurb Curb Curb Curb Curb CurbCurb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Sewer Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Curb Grade Gradine 182 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT Grades and Lines Street *Estiii Avenue... . Forty-fourth . *Fortv-fifth _ ... . Fortv-sixth.. - . *Forty-eighth___ . . Fiftieth ___ ... .. Fifty-first. _ . . . Fifty -second. .... Fiftv-third _ ... Fifty-fourth ..... Strand... . Bulloch----. ..... Forty-third... .... Fortv-nfth __ .. .. Forty-sixth .. . . Forty-eighth .... . Rothwell. _...... Millikan ... ... Gumming... .... Broughton . ... York _ ..-.... A. B. andC... .... From Bull.......... . Bull....... . ... Bull....... .. . Bull... ... . . . Bull...... . Bull....... . .... Bull......... ... Bull......... Bull... ..... . . Bull... .. ... . Bull.... .... .... Bull............. Whitaker..... . Barnard.. .... Forty-second . . . Florence..... Florence.. -.._-.. Savannah Develo Savannah Develo Savannah Develo To W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham Jefferson..... Jefferson.. ..... . Forty-eighth. .... Hopkins __- South ___ ... ... South........... pment Co.'s Tract pment Co.'s Tract pment Co.'s Tract Purpose Grading Grading Grading Grading Grading Grading Paying Gutter Grading Grading Grading Grading * Includes lane. Grades and Lines for Sidewalks On Forty-seventh street, from Bull to Waters' road. On north side of Thirty-first street, from Cedar to Ash street On Price street, from Estill avenue to Fortieth street. On Forty-fourth, from Chatham Crescent to Habersham street. On Forty-sixth street, from Habersham to East Crescent. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 183 On north side of Park avenue from Drayton to Whitaker streets. On east side of Whitaker street, from Park avenue to Gaston street. On south side of Gaston, from Whitaker to Drayton street. On north side of Hall street, from Whitaker to Drayton street. On Forcy-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh streets, East Crescent to Ardsley Park. On south side of Thirty-fourth street, between Price and Plant streets. On south side of Hull street, from Floyd to Abercorn street. On south side of Fortieth street, between Abercorn and Lincoln streets. On north side of Forty-first street, between Habersham and Price streets. On southeast corner of Broughton and Abercorn streets. On north side of Thirty-ninth street, between Price and East Broad streets. On Thirty-ninth street, from East Broad to Waters' avenue. On southwest corner of West Broad and Duffy streets. On Pine (Congress street) in front of lot G, Middle Oglethorpe ward. 184 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT On Ott street, in front of lot 29, Johnston ward. On southeast corner of Barnard and Forty-fourth streets. On northeast corner of Bolton and Burroughs streets. On north side of Estill avenue in front of lot 48, Southville ward. On northeast corner of Estill avenue and Abercorn street.. On West Broad street, in front of lot 8, Elliott ward. On south side of Thirty-eighth street, between Price and East Broad streets. On Thirty-fourth street, in front of lot 153, Gartland ward. On north side of Thirty-fourth, between Price and East Broad streets. On Fortieth street, from A. C. L. Ry. to Habersham street. On north side of Waldburg street, between Paulsen and Atlantic streets. On southeast corner of Burroughs and Thirty-seventh; streets. On northwest corner of Forty-second and West Broad streets. On north side of Thirty-eighth street, between Habersham. and Price streets. On Perry and McDonough streets, in front of lot 9, East. Crawford ward. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 185 On Gordon street west, in front of house number 119. : On Pine (Congress street) in front of lot 4, Middle Oglethorpe ward. On south side of Forty-first street, from Montgomery to West Broad streets. On Lincoln street, from Fortieth to Maupas avenue. On Waldburg streets, in front of lots 41 and 42, Kelly ward. Grades and Lines miscellaneous Grades and lines for street car tracks at the intersection of Montgomery, Whitaker and Barnard streets at Thirtyseventh street. Grades and lines for spur track (street railway) at new base ball park, on Bolton street. Grades and lines for setting curb in Strand, between Whitaker and Barnard streets. Grades for improving Strand at Drayton street. Grades for the four approaches to the Center Mall. Baffin Park. Grades and lines for curbing and grading Entelman, Kavanaugh, Vetsburg, Gaudry and Adams' Parks. Grades and lines for tennis court at southeast corner of Drayton and Charlton streets, for the Y. M. C. A. Grades and lines for Tiedeman Park. 186 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Grades and lines for curbing around Cann Park. Lines for tree planting in center grass plat on Estill avenue from Bull street to Waters' road. Grades and lines for street car tracks on Barnard street,, from Gaston street to Forieth street. Grades for fountain in Thomas* Park. Grades for Atlantic Coast Line Railway tracks at intersection of Estill avenue and Bull street. Grades for changing center grass plat at intersection of Estill avenue and Abercorn street. Grades and lines for street car tracks at intersection of Forty-first and Wbitaker streets. Grades and lines for street car tracks, on Fiftieth street east of Abercorn street. Grades and lines for street car track on Montgomery street, between Broughton and Congress street. Grades and lines for street car tracks on Bay street, front Barnard street to West Broad street. Lines for tree planting for approaches to Center Mall, ia Baffin Park. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 1ST Levels of Streets Street Abercorn . Forty-fifth _____ Forty-sixth _ Forty-eighth. Fiftieth ______ Fifty-first ___ .. Fifty-third. _ . _ Fifty-fourth __ .. Price. ___ ----- East Broad.- -- Reynolds- -------- Harmon.. _.__ __ Abercom--- Rothwell -.-_-._ Millikan-.. ------ Brickyard- ------- Gumming Broughton. ..- York __ .---.-.- A. B. C. --- From Estill Avenue Bull __ .- Bull ... ._-.-.- Bull. ...... Bull-. --------- Bull Bull. -------- Bull ___ ----- . Bull.... ------ Bull ... ------ Bull ---....- Bull ......... S. of Thirty-eighth S. of Thirty-ninth S. of Thirty-ninth S. of Fortieth __ S. of Fortieth _ - S. of Fortieth .... Bay __ .. _ _-. Louisville Road Savannah Develo Savannah Develo To Fifty-fourth. ..... W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham Forty-first. ------ South of Fortieth Estill Avenue - Estill Avenue. ... Forty-first. . - Oglethorpe Ave.__ Gaston _______ South - South - South- -__ -_- pment Co.'s Tract pment Co.'s Tract Purpose Grading Grading Grading Grading Grading Grading Grading Grading Grading Sewer Sewer Sewer Sewer Paving Grading Grading Grading Levels Miscellaneous Taking levels and establishing grades for new base ball park, on Bolton street east. Levels of lots 248, 249 and 250, Section P, Bonaventure cemetery. Levels to determine the difference in elevation between the mouth of the Fiftieth-street sewer and ditch in Baffin Park, crossing Waters' road and Forty-fourth street. Levels of Casey and DeRenne canals and proposed extension of same to Savannah river. 188 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Encroachments Investigation and report of encroachment on southwest corner of Lincoln and Broughton streets, lot number 5, second Tything, Anson ward. Investigating alleged encroachment on south side of River street, west of East Broad street. Locating encroachments on north side of Estill avenue, between Lincoln and Bull streets. Locating encroachments on south side of Forty-second street, between Montgomery and West Broad streets. Investigation of encroachment on the south side of Hall street, between Habersham and Price streets. Investigating the closing up of River street, west of Bridge street, by Central of Georgia Railway. Estimates of Streets Street Thirty-eighth. . . Whitaker....... Abercora _ . Abercom, ...... Bay............ Bay.. . . ..... West Broad. .. . Hall.... ....... Hall---.. ._--.- Thirty-seventh . Fortieth ___ .. From East Broad. ----- Park Avenue.... . State. ..--.- . . Bay __ .. ....-- Harris.. ...--.--. Zubly----------. Bull. ___ . . .- Price ___ ... ... Whitaker ....... Price _ ..... .... Bull.. ........ To Waters' Road .... Fortieth ___ .... Oglethorpe Ave. . West Broad _ .. Whitaker........ Barnard .... Habersham _ . .. West Broad _ ... Material Asphalt block Asphnlt block Asphalt block Asphalt block Asphalt block MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 189 Estimates Miscellaneous Estimate of lumber needed for inverts and foundation of the main brick sewer through the Granger and Lattimore tracts. Estimate area of roadways, cost of grading streets and laying water mains in the subdivision of lot number 2, of the Gumming lots, located west of Lathrop avenue, for the Savannah Development Company. Estimate miles and square yards of streets paved and unpaved in city, and cost of paving same. Estimate cost of retaining wall to protect bluff at Bonaventure cemetery. Estimate sand, cement and brick needed for constructing main brick sewer through the Granger and Lattimore tracts. Estimate area and cost of opening Barnard street, from Forty-second street to extended limits. Estimate area of land needed by the city to open Atlantic, Paulsen, Harmon and Ott streets through Teynac Farm, lot number 4, in Glatigny, Garrard, Harman and Hardee wards. Estimate area of roadways for grading Thirty-ninth street, from East Broad to Waters' road; also Atlantic, Paulsen, Harman and Ott streets just north and south of Thirty-ninth street. Estimate cost of laying 15- and 24-inch sewer pipe in^ Thirty-ninth street, from East Broad to Waters' road. Estimate cost of installing water mains and sewerage in the Lawton tract, in Lawton and Waters' road. 190 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Estimate cost of grading and laying water mains in streets to be acquired by the city from J. K. Culver, in Millen lots 6, 7, 10, 11, and Eastville. Estimate amount of curbing needed for center grass plat in Forty-seventh street, from Bull street to Granger line and also for five parks in Ardsley Park. Estimate and report of cost of bulk-head for protection of bluff at Bonaventure cemetery. Estimate cost of grading and curbing Cann Park in Cann ward. Estimate cost of grading Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets, between Florance and Hopkins streets. Estimate cost of proposed improvement of Strand, just east of City Hall. . Estimate cost of a house drainage system for south, east and west extension of city. Estimate area and cost of laying cement sidewalks on Park avenue, Whitaker, Hall and Gaston streets in Forsyth Park and Park extension. Estimate area and cost of grading Rothwell, Millikan and Brick Yard streets in the subdivision of lots 16 and 17 Springfield. Estimate cost of grading streets and lanes owned by the Wage Earners Loan and Investment Company in the subdivision of half of lot 12, lot 13 and portion of lot 14 in Springfield plantation. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 191 Estimate of approximate quantities for the construction of Henry street subway. Estimate area of streets to be opened by the city, south of Forty-second and west of Bull street. Estimate cost to city for opening streets south of Anderson street to 1907. Estimate cost to city for opening streets north of Anderson street. Estimate area of driveways and sidewalks in Laurel Grove cemetery. Estimate number of miles of streets and lanes and various distances in city limits, for new city map. Estimate amount of old curbing on Barnard street, from Gaston to Fortieth street. Estimate amount of sewer pipe needed to connect up new catch basins on Abercorn street, from Bay street to Gaston street, prior to paving same. Estimate amount of sewer pipe needed on Paulsen, Reynolds, East Broad and Price streets, north of Estill avenue. Estimate cost of installing house drainage system in Ardsley Park. Estimate yardage and cost of grading Thirty-ninth street, between Atlantic Coast Line Railway and East Broad street. Estimate cost of increased size of brick sewer through the Granger tract to provide drainage for the Ardsley Park tract. 192 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Estimate cost of grading Thirty-eighth street, from East Broad street to Waters' road. Maps and Plats of Lots Lot ff>\ QA (2) 78 and 79. (2) 75, 76, 77. ----- - (2) 80... ........... (2) 86 and 87- ------ (2)85 _ _ ..---- (2) O, N, M, 89 and 88.. ------------- (2) 81, 82,83,84-..- (2) 16 and 17------ 41 and 43 ........ 15 and 16..... _ ..- 4 10 and 15-..-. _ ... 10, 15, 18, 23, 26 and 31.. .----.---,--- 1 to 7 _ ........ -. 44 (strip)... ....... . 2 (strip)... . ....... - 22 to 27, parts...-.- B, 2, 4, 6 ..-- --. 1 and 2 __ . _ ..... 61 and 63.. ____ - 182, 183, 184, 185, 188 and strip 186 - 29, 30 and 31-...--- B __ - _ .--.---- 13, 14, 15, 16, 17--.- 65 (strip) ____ .. . Triangle .-,-.- 13 and 15 ______ Part of old Drayton street .......... 7and 9.. ...__ ... 89 and 90- . ....... 15, strip) . _ ------- 23, part-..---.. .. 33 and 40.. . ........ Section Block? (Goerz).- Block 6 (Barstow) Block 6 (Barstow) Block 6 (Barstow) Kings" --- Sub. 5. ------ Old Water Works Ward Owens -..- Owens Owens Owens Owens Owens Owens Owens --.- Springfield McKenna - LaFayette. Canty ___ Canty . .. Canty ..... Lee..--.-- Norwood . Law.. --_.- Demere ... Southville Springfield Norwood . Colding ... Haywood - Marshall Wright _ . Brownsvilll Springfield Norwood . Southville Tract _ . Battery ... Wright .... Southville Canty and Schroder Purpose Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange Opening streets Opening streets Tennis Court Opening streets Opening streets Opening streets Division line City property City property City property City property City property City property City property Division line City property Opening streets. City property City property City property City property City property City property . City property City property Opening streets MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 193 Maps and Plats of Streets Street Thirty-ninth _ ... Barnard------ -.-- From East Broad. ---.. Bay_----_--_-_- State _ ---.---.- To Waters' Road___- Gaston__ -__--_-- Purpose Paving- - - . Tracing of Lots No. 1 34 1 1_. 4 N, 1 33 Lot 0, P, Q, R, S. and 40 ___ . Section McNish ..-.-.- Ward Falligant . Schroder Purpose Subdivision Opening street Maps and Plats Miscellaneous Plan showing construction of inverts for brick sewer on Fiftieth street, through Granger and Lattimore tracts. Four plans of retaining walls to protect bluff at Bonaventttre cemetery. Plans showing soundings of river in front of bluff at Bonaventure cemetery. Plan showing location of streets through the Lawton tract, in Lawton and Watson wards. Three plans of city, showing proposed house drainage extension. Plan of outlet for Fiftieth street sewer at DeRenne canal and Waters' road. 194 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Plan of the Axson land in Canty ward, showing the area of streets, lanes and park needed by city. Sketch of Thirty-seventh street, between Florance and Bullock streets, showing land needed by city to complete the opening of same. Plan showing strip of land on the south side of Fortyfourth sreet, purchased by the city from the Estate of A. R. Lawton to be deeded to the Ardsley Park Land Corporation, as per agreement with the city. Plan showing streets in Gumming lot number 2, west of Lathrop avenue, acquired by city from the Savannah Development Company. Plans of Henry street subway. Plan of new base ball park on Bolton street east. Commercial map of city, showing various industries and railroad terminals. Plan of portion of the Strand, just east of City Hall, showing proposed improvements. Plan showing lots and part of lots needed by the city to open Thirty-first, Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets through Millen lots 6, 7, 10, 11, in Schwarz Ward. Plan of Calhoun Square, showing proposed roadway of Abercorn street through same. Three small house drainage maps, showing location of privy vaults. Plan of intersection of Abercorn and Forty-fourth streets to show proposed change in street car track. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 195 Three maps of city, showing districts supplied and to be supplied with house drainage sewers. Plan of Perry street, between West Broad and Montgomery streets. Three revised plans of Henry street subway. Plan of docks at foot of Abercorn, Barnard, West Broad and East Broad streets. Plan showing land needed by city to open the north side of Estill avenue from Atlantic Coast Line Railway crossing to Lincoln street. Plan showing land needed by city to complete the opening of Forty-second street, between Montgomery and West Broad streets. Plan of Wage Earners Investment Company's land in Canty ward, showing land needed by city to open Fortyninth and Harmon streets. Map of city and vicinity, showing the various railroad terminals. Map of city .and vicinity, showing various property owners. Plan of the Twelfth Street Land Company's property, located in Cann and Garfunkel wards. Detail plan of Henry street subway. A design for improving Guckenheimer Park. Map of a portion of Falligant ward, showing subdivison .for new citv man. 196 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Map of Springfield plantation, showing division into wards as adopted by Council. Two plans showing strip of land (old road) south of lot number 2, "Old Water Works Tract" and Virginia Carolina Chemical Company's lot. Plan of southwest portion of city lying between Middleground road, Bull street, Fiftieth and Fifty-second streets. Plan of intersection of Bull street and Estill avenue for proposed paving and location of railroad gates. Plan of the eastern section of city and vicinity, showing proposed system of drainage. Map of Granger tract, showing present location of sewers and catch basins. Plan showing line established between city property "Old Water Works Tract" and Pierpont Manufacturing Company's plant. Plan of lots 248, 249 and 250 Section P, Bonaventure cemetery. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 197 Profiles and Cross-Section Streets Street Abercorn.. ------ . Forty-fifth ___ -. Forty-sixth. ..... Fiftieth.-...-..-. Fifty-first. _ _--._ Fifty-third- ..... Fifty-fourth -..-.. Rothwell. -.--.... Millikan.-- ...... York...... ....... A. B.C.-. -.---... Waldburg........ From Estill Avenue.. .. Bull ... _.-.-.. Bull --_--. Bull... ....... ... Bull............ Bull............. Bull .__._-- Bull__- _...__- BulL. ........... Bull... ......... . Bull. ......... Bull..-.. ..-..-. Louisville Road.. Paulsen... ....... To Fiftv-fourth ..... W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham W. of Habersham South. ...---.--. South.------.- Atlantic- -------- Purpose Grading Grading Grading Sidewalk Profiles and cross-sections of Henry street subway. Profiles of proposed drainage from Fiftieth street tc Savannah river. Tracings Miscellaneous Tracing of plan, showing inverts for construction of brick sewer on Fiftieth street, through Granger and Lattimore tracts. Four tracings of plan of retaining walls to protect bluff at Bonaventure cemetery. Three tracings of plan, showing location of streets through the Lawton tract, in Lawton and Watson wards. Tracing of outlet for Fiftieth street sewer at DeRenne canal and Waters' road. 198 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT i Two tracings showing streets, lanes and parks acquired by the city in Ardsley Park, Lattimore tract. Tracing of plan of the Axson property in Granger tract, showing area of streets, lanes and parks needed by the city. Two tracings of profiles and cross-sections of Henry street subway. Tracing of Automobile Route from Savannah to Jacksonville, Brunswick, Augusta and Atlanta. Tracing of plan of the Minis tract west of Hopkins street and south of the Ogeechee road. Tracing of plan at intersection of Bull street and Estill avenue, for proposed paving and location of railroad gates. Two tracings of map, showing encroachments on River street of Rourkes Marine Railroad, lettered A and B. Two tracings of plan, showing established line between lot number 1, "Old Water Works Tract" (city property) and Pierpont Manufacturing Company's plant. Tracing of plan showing lands of the Estate of John M. Cooper, consisting of lots 106, 107, 110 and 113 and the northern portion of 108, 109 and 114 Springfield plantation. Tracing of map of the Estate of J. M. Cooper showing: part sold to Maj. G. M. Ryals. Tracing of plan of the Gumming lots, west of Lathrop avenue. Opening Streets During the past year the city acquired for opening streets the following property: MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 199 From the Ardsley Park Land Corporation, in Lawton, Davant, McKenna, Sugden and Bryan wards: Square feet Abercorn street.......... ..................................309,015 Bull street._.................................................. 92,290 Forty-fifth street.................................... .... 70,905 Forty-sixth street... ... ................................... 71,064 Forty-seventh street...................... .................118,580 Forty-eighth street........................................ 71,268 Forty-ninth street.......................................*... 71,382 Fiftieth street.......................................... ... 71,490 Fifty-first street_...._....................................... 71,592 Fifty-second street....................................... 71,700 Fifty-third street.............................................. 71,802 Fifty-fourth street..-................-...........-... 71,920 Adjacent park.................................................. 71,520 Entelman Park............................................... 45,200 Kavanaugh Park............................................. 41,200 Lattimore Park............................................ 45,200 Vetsburg Park.................................. - 45,200 Gaudry Park............................................. 45,200 Adams Park.........-..... ..................... 45,200 Lanes.........................................198,512-1,700,240 From J. K. Culver, Millen lots, 6, 7,10,11, Schwarz ward: Square Feet Reynolds street................................................ 72,450 Randolph street............ ....................... 40;000 Grovestreet..................-............................ 40,250 Vine street......... ....... 40,400 Paulsen street._....................... .......... 27,928 Thirty-fourth street.__............................. 52,800 Thirty-fifth street..........-..:............ 60,300 Tbirtv-si:rth.................................................... 67,800 401,928 200 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT From J. K. Culver, "Eastville" Hull ward: Square Feet Walburg street............ . ....... ........ ....... 52,500 Bolton street..... ....................... ................ 53,000 Gwinnett street......... ....... ............................. 53,500 Wright (Hall) street...... ............... ........... 39,400 Culver street................... ... .......... .................. 23,450 Live Oak street................ ......................... 26,500 Lanes and Alleys..... ......................... 54,057 302,407 From Savannah Developement Company's subdivision west of city: Square Feet Cumming street.-............. ............................. 12,200 Broughton street........................................... 48,800 York street........................................................ 51,360 "A" street.,...... ..... ... ........................ .. . 27,400 "B" street.............. . .. ................ ............... 25,000 "C" street... .... .... ....................!......... ... 6,720 Lanes.................................. . .... ............ 37,150 208,630 From Estate of A. R. Lawton, in Lawton and Watson wards: Square Feet Forty-fourth street... ......................... . .... ... 74,460 Bull street._..... .......... ........... ....................... 1,185 Abercorn street................................................ 19,290 Unnamed street.... .... ..................................... 3,836 98,771 From Rothwell and Millikan, subdivision of lots 16 and 17 Springfield plantation: Square Feet Rothwell street.. ........ . ........... .. ........ 16,700 Millikan street.... . ......................................... 18,200 34,900 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 201 From W. G. Gnann, lot 24 and west 15 feet of 22, Norwood ward: Square Feet Barnard street................................................. 4,950 Recapitulation Square Feet From Ardsley Park Land Corporation......... 1,700,240 From J. K. Culver............................................ 704,335 From Savannah Development Company..... 208,630 From Estate of A. R. Lawton........................ 98,771 From Rothwell and Millikan.......................... 34,900 From W. G. Gnann......................................... 4,950 Total......................................................... ' 2,751,826 Sale of Lots The city sold the western strip of lot 44, King's subdivision, Norwood ward. The city exchanged a strip of land on the north side of Thirty-sixth street, between Burroughs and Florance streets for a strip of land in rear of same through lots 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, M, N, O, 90, Owensward, making a lane of same. The city sold the west strip of lot 24, Sec. 8, Southville ward. The city sold lots 1 and 2 Springfield plantation. Miscellaneous Investigation of that part of the Old Water Works road lying immediately south of lot number 2 "Old Water Works Tract" and the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company's property. 7-A 202 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Investigation of ownership of River street at Wharf lots 1 and 2, west of Lincoln street." Report to Mayor on two separate designs for Henry street subway. Compiling information for industrial map. Compiling information for new city map. Investigation of bluff at Bonaventure cemetery with Assistant United States Engineer. Investigating possibility of septic tank for Fiftieth street sewer "Granger Tract." Data and information of Thirty-ninth street, between East Broad and Waters' road, with view to relocating same. Locating boundary lines of the present house drainage system on city map. Specifications for training wall to protect bluff at Bonaventure cemetery. Report to Mayor of condition of flood gate at Musgrove creek, south of Bay street extension. Investigation of track grades in River street, between Drayton and Abercom streets. Report, maps and data of proposed house drainage extension for the Mayor. Inspection of slips at foot of West Broad, Barnard, Abercorn and East Broad streets, with view of improving same. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 203 Locating parks on city map. Locating on map section of city to be drained by constructing new storm sewers. Investigation of drainage at the southwest corner of Park avenue and Paulsen streets. Investigation of drainage at Walburg and Lincoln streets. Specifications and proposals for Henry street subway. Investigated drainage of Springfield plantation at Sea- "board Air Line Railway yards and Seaboard Pipe Company's plant. Calculation of area of extension of city limits, from 1733 to date. Investigated drainage of DeRenne and Casey canals. Inspection of culvert at Central of Georgia Railway and Center ditch. Investigation and inspection of drainage sewers in the Granger tract. Locating present city limits on map for Savannah Electric Company. Joint investigation and report of Vale-Royal drainage west of the city. Joint report on drainage situation of eastern section of city and county. Investigation and report to Mayor of the condition of Thirty-ninth street, between Atlantic Coast Line Railway and East Broad street. 204 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Report of drainage of Central of Georgia Railway property in city limits, north of Bay street. Locating privy vaults on city map. Blue Prints Xo. of Prints 2Plans showing construction of inverts for brick sewer on Fiftieth street, through Granger and Lattimore tracts. 5Plans of retaining walls to protect bluff at Bonaventure cemetery. 2Plans showing soundings of river in front of Bonaventure cemetery. 3Plans showing location of streets through the Lawton. tract, in Lawton and Watson wards. 1Plan of Ardsley Park, located south of Estill avenue east of Bull street. 4Plans of outlet for Fiftieth street sewer at DeRenne. canal and Waters' road. 10Of small map of the City of Savannah and vicinity. 1Plan of the southeast section of the city showing streets opened. 4Plans showing streets, lanes and park to be acquired by the City of Savannah from the estate of Randolph Axson, in lot No. 3, Barstow subdivision, Canty ward. 2Of profile and cross-section of Henry street subway. 1Plan of first floor of Guards Armory. 29Plans of Henry street subway. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 205 No. of Prints 8Of section of proposed plunger-ring for pump No. 66 at River station, Old Water Works. 2Plans of portion of Bonaventure cemetery. 29Of automobile route from Savannah to Jacksonville, Brunswick, Augusta and Atlanta. 1Plan of 178 lots, part of the Gumming subdivision of lot No. 3, known as West End. 1Plan of portion of Strand just east of City Hall. 4Of map showing a portion of Beaufort county, S. C. 1Plan of lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 of Bonaventure subdivision, Parsons' tract. IPlan of Findley subdivision on Bay street extension and Jenkes avenue. 7Plans showing automobile route between Savannah and Jacksonville, Fla. 1Plan of dock at foot of Abercorn street. 1Plan of dock at foot of Barnard street. 1Plan of dock at foot of West Broad street. 1Plan of dock at foot of East Broad street. 3Plans showing land needed by the city to open the north side of Estill avenue, between the A. C. L. Railway and Lincoln street. 0Tentative plans of Henry street subway. 206 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT No. of Prints 3-Plans showing land needed by the city to open south side of Forty-second street, between Montgomery and West Broad streets. 4Plans showing land needed by the city to open Fortyninth and Harmon streets through the Wage Earners Investment Company's land in Canty ward. 2Plans of lot No. 34 Springfield plantation, showing subdivision into streets and lots. 1Plan of lots N, O, P, Q, R, S, of the McNish tract in Colding ward. 2Plans of lots 10, 15, 18, 23, 26, 31, Barstow subdivision in Canty ward. 1Plan showing proposed ferry and bridge connection between the City of Savannah and Beaufort county, S. C. 1Plan of Bonaventure cemetery. 4.Plans of the Twelfth Street Land Company's property in Cann and Garfunkel wards. 3Plans of lots 248, 249 and 250 in Section P, Bonaventure cemetery. 3Plans showing the intersection of Bull street and Estill avenue for proposed paving and location of railroad gates. 3Plans of the eastern section of the City of Savannah and vicinity, showing proposed system of drainage. 15Plans of Grand Stand for Grand Prize Race Course. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 207 No. of Prints 3Of profile of proposed sewer and canal from Fiftieth street lane to Savannah river. 1Plan of Abercorn street, between Bay and Gaston streets, showing proposed paving. 1Plan showing line established between lot No. 1 (city property) "Old Water Works Tract" and Pierpont Manufacturing Company's plant. 1Plan of lots 33 and 40 in Canty and Schroder wards. 1Plan of lot 4 of the Barstow subdivision, block 6, Canty ward. Recapitulation Survey of lots for private parties...................................... 190 Plats of above lots for private parties.................................... 110 Miscellaneous measurements and surveys............................. 37 Estimate of streets..........................:...................................... 15 Estimates, miscellaneous.......................................................... 33 Measurements of streets.......................................................... 23 Street lines given during the year.......................................... 227 Maps and plats of lots.............................................................. 43 Maps and plats of streets............................................................ 3 Tracing of lots................-.................................................... 7 Maps and plats, miscellaneous................................................ 51 Grades and lines........................................................................ 100 Grades and lines for sidewalks................................................ 38 Grades and lines, miscellaneous......................................... 19 Levels of streets........................_............................................ 27 Profiles and cross-section, streets............................................ 22 Levels, miscellaneous.............................................................. 4 Tracings, miscellaneous..................................................... 24 208 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Encroachments, investigated.................................................. 6 Blue prints.................................................................................. 180 Miscellaneous reports, etc....................................................... 30 Total.....................................;........................................ 1189 Respectfully submitted, J. W. HOWARD, City Engineer. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SANITARY COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GA. FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 1910 W. F. BRUNNER, M. D. HEALTH OFFICER MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 211 BOARD OF SANITARY COMMISSIONERS SAVANNAH, GA., January 2, 1911. To THE HON. GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, City of Savannah, Ga., SIR:The report of the Health Officer, who is the Executive Officer of this Board, for the year 1910, is respectfully submitted. The report includes statements of health history of the year and covers that part of the work of the Health Department under control of the Board of Sanitary Commissioners. These functions include the prevention of the spread of transmissible diseases, sanitary inspection of the city, as well as the records of vital statistics. The removal of waste matter and drainage is not and never has been functions of this Board. That the conduct of both of these branches of sanitation should be under its control should be apparent to everyone. Deaths The total number of deaths and the death rate exceeds those of the year 1909. There were several contributing causes for an augmented mortality. There were 56 deaths among the whites and 131 deaths among colored people, a total of 187 deaths from pheumonia alone, and, for the first time, more deaths were recorded from this disease than from tuberculosis. The unprecedented cold weather in December caused 37 of these deathsabout 20 per cent, of all deaths from this cause. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 211 BOARD OF SANITARY COMMISSIONERS SAVANNAH, GA., January 2, 1911. To THE HON. GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, City of Savannah, Ga., SIR:The report of the Health Officer, who is the Executive Officer of this Board, for the year 1910, is respectfully submitted. The report includes statements of health history of the year and covers that part of the work of the Health Department under control of the Board of Sanitary Commissioners. These functions include the prevention of the spread of transmissible diseases, sanitary inspection of the city, as well as the records of vital statistics. The removal of waste matter and drainage is not and never has been functions of this Board. That the conduct of both of these branches of sanitation should be under its control should be apparent to everyone. Deaths The total number of deaths and the death rate exceeds those of the year 1909. There were several contributing causes for an augmented mortality. There were 56 deaths among the whites and 131 deaths among colored people, a total of 187 deaths from pheumonia alone, and, for the first time, more deaths were recorded from this disease than from tuberculosis. The unprecedented cold weather in December caused 37 of these deathsabout 20 per cent, of all deaths from this cause. 212 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT There was an increase of deaths from tuberculosis over last year. Another cause for the increase in the death rate was the abnormal number of deaths among the whites in nonresidents, who, contracting the desease (from which they died) at their homes, were brought here for treatment. There were 82 such deaths, which means that last year there was one such death in every seven white deaths. Unfortunately, not a few of these deaths were from typhoid and malarial fevers. A growing evil is the sending of the indigent sick from surrounding counties to be cared for at our hospitals at the expense of this city and county. On the part of some of these, authorities, it is a matter of financial economy, it being cheaper to pay the railroad fare of the patient than it would be to care for him where he lived. Your Health Officer endeavor to have the National government authorities, who compile vital statistics, separate such deaths from the normal death rate, but without success. There were 571 deaths among the whites and 1,070 among the colored people, a total of 1,641. The principal causes of death were: WHITE COLORED TOTAL Pneumonia. .................................... 56 131 187 Tuberculosis..................................... 40 132 172 Bright's Disease........................... 46 49 95 Marasmus._....... ............................ 25 57 82 Heart Disease............................... 37 ' 41 78 Old Age............................................. 34 36 70 Malarial Fevers.................................. 13 51 64 Convulsions...............-....... .... 9 56 65 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 21* Of the 13 deaths among the whites from malarial fevers, S were of non-residents brought here sull'ering with the disease. Your attention is called to the Longevity Table which follows this report, and which shows that there were 121 white decedents over 70 years of age. Births It is not a pleasant thing to write, but it is my duty tostate that the medical profession as a whole takes but little interest in reporting births which occur in their practice. Over half of the profession report them only after several reminders from this office, at the end of the year. No nation, state, county or municipality can gauge its true growth without a complete record of births and deaths. It is here written with some shame that often we are appealed to by persons for a record of their children's birth, but without success. We have a hundred or more such applications each year, which often means much to the persons interested, as such record would establish legality of birth, etc. It is our opinion that the physician who fails to obey the law calling for the registration of births occurring in his practice is not giving his clientele full value for a paid service. TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES Diphtheria There were 258 cases reported during the year, but 138 were eliminated by bacteriological examination, leaving 120 cases Among the white people there were 113 cases and 7 of them were among the negroes. There were but 3 deaths, due to the increasing knowledge of physicians in giving suf- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT ficiently large doses of the antitoxin and to the fact that this city dispenses at cost this remedial agent at one-third the price charged on the market for those who are able to buy it; and it is given to those unable to pay for it, putting the poor man's child on a parity with the child of the rich man. This dispensing of this drug has also saved probably nearly $1,000.00 to our people and it is a conservative statement to make, that the Laboratory, in eliminating the 138 cases reported as diphtheria, has saved twice that amount to its citizens. It will be noted that there were 11 cases reported among negroes, 7 of which proved to be diphtheria. While it is true that the colored children do not get the same attention -that white children are given, yet it is the observation of your Health officer, after an experience of nearly a quarter of a century in sanitary work, that negroes have some resisting power to diphtheria not possessed by the whites. Scarlet Fever There were 86 cases, 85 white, 1 colored. Again, the partial immunity of the colored race; for while your Health Officer has seen in former years malignant cases of this disease even among the negroes of unmixed blood, the disease does not prevail among them to the extent that it does among -the whites. The closely crowded condition of their houses, coupled with their carelessness in caring for their sick would cause a wide spread of these two diseases unless they possessed this resisting power. Typhoid Fever There were 56 cases, with a mortality of 15; 10 whites .and 5 negroes. Half of the deaths occurred in non-residents -brought here for treatment. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 215 The country medical practicioner seems unable to learn that the transfer of a typhoid fever patient from one point to another necessitating the changing from house to conveyance, to railroad car and thence to city ambulance, is contra-indicated, but the high death-rate of such persons prove it. It is not an uncommon thing for a patient to start from an interior town with some other ailment and "land" in a Savannah hospital with typhoid fever. Measles There were no deaths from this disease and there were but a few cases. In this climate this disease seldom assumes a malignant form and probably strong, healthy children, under careful control, would do well to contract the disease to escape the malignancy of the disease in adult age. Whooping Cough This disease prevailed to some extent in the early fall months among the negroes and 7 of them died from this disease. Small-pox Early in January, nearly a score of cases developed among the employees of the American Construction Company, who were engaged in constructing a steel bridge across the Savannah River. They were all white and the disease began to spread in that part of this county, near where the men were stationed. The county had no small-pox hospital and, acting tinder your authority, the sick were removed to our hospital and we took charge of the train of cars in which these men lived and disinfected the train and all textile fabrics. This practically wound up the disease in that quarter, but, in the latter part of January, two cases developed in the city from an unrecognized case imported from North Carolina, and this focus was smothered. Several interior 216 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT points contributed their quota, but we never had a case that we did not trace to its origin and the disease disappeared until December 12th, when 9 cases were found at Burroughs* Station by the County Physician, and again the city took all preventive measures, that so far, have been useful in checkingthe disease. Your attention is called to the facts in this case: These nine cases were negroes living in a construction train of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. It was a traveling" dispenser of small-pox, as the disease began in the middle of November at a point near the Georgia-Florida line. Between that point and Savannah it stopped to do work and dispense small-pox and finally, as the disease waxed too warm, the white men of the crew left, as did about 30 of the negroes, some of whom came to Savannah to be paid off. With these, importations, we cared for 31 cases of this disease, with no deaths. Disinfections The operation of the steam and formaldehyde chamber for the disinfection of textile fabrics found in rooms where transmissible diseases occur has been most successfully conducted, both from the standpoint of sterilizing of said fabrics and from that of not injuring them. Often the most delicate and costly of wearing apparel and room fittings are treated without damaging the materials. Three hundred and seventy-seven such disinfections were accomplished during the year and it is a conservative statement that over $3,000.00 was saved the tax payers. This work was performed well by Mr. Bernard McDonald from this office, who showed no little skill in handling the apparatus, as well as his tact and courtesy in dealing with citizens. We are under obligations to the Water Works Department, especially Messrs. Quarterman and Reid, who gave us the benefit of their knowledge of machinery whenever called upon. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 217 Drainage The county has set the city an example in the drainage of the low lands within their jurisdiction and the time is now here when we can no longer delay in starting the work of installing a better system of surface drainage of the low lands west of the city. This work is the function of an engineer, not of a health official, but he can but point out the unhealthiness of existing conditions. There is no efficient drainage of the low lands, from the Savannah river as far back as the low lands extend; the water lies often "dead" in the ditches, some of them with no outlet and can but breed the mosquito, which transmit malarial fever from one person to another, and the proof-of this is evident in the reports of the City Physicians and of the hospitals, as well as the death reports and my own observation. The Ogeechee canal, south of the Central Railway bridges, is a tnenance to the health of the city. The Springfield canal which draines a large water shed southwest* of the city is obstructed by pilings in nearly every instance where a railroad track crosses that stream. Twice these low lands were flooded during the past year and while the mosquito crop was cut short by the use of petroleum, this is costly and but a makeshift. Your Health Officer urges that the City Engineer be placed in charge of this work with a view of immediate prosecution of the work. No one, can but favorably comment on the handsome appearance of the well-paved streets of Savannah, but the work of paving should follow the laying of sewers for housedrainage and for precipitation of water instead of preceding it. There are parts of the city that need both of these systems more than they do paving. Enforcement of the Milk Law Milk is the most important food product to the human family. It is a perfect food and most important of all as the 218 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT food of infants and of the sick and convalescents. It is the easiest food product to adulterate and the greatest carrier of germs of transmissible diseases known; the organism of typhoid fever in a few hours will multiply a thousandfold. Diphtheria, scarlet fever and tuberculosis is disseminated by it. The infantile mortality from stomach and intestinal trouble is chiefly caused by bad milk. This is the unanimous verdict of the medical profession and the man of that calling who, by word or action, opposes a law which safeguards the milk supply of a community is a knave or an ignoramus. Such a law was enacted in the latter part of the year 1909, and its enforcement began in January, 1910. Between the enactment and the enforcement, the Health Officer (with a working knowledge of the milk production in its every detail that is: He knew the topography of the county, the personnel of the dairymen who produced the milk and the men who sold it, the milk plants, herds, foods used and water supply), began tours of recommendation and advice. After years of unrestricted milk production the business was largely in the hands of persons who produced dirty, adulterated milk. Skimming was not the general rule, but the plentiful addition of water was much practiced. While dirty milk was common, the natural product of dirty, incapable producers, there were producers in the business (and you can judge for yourself by reading the tables in this report) for whom no law was necessary. They are highly intelligent and honest men and invariably they were successful before and since the enactment of the law. There were not, nor are there now, ornate barns. They are not necessary in this open climate. A plain, one-story frame, open structure is the ideal building. Artesian water can always be found and probably nowhere else is the production of milk so safeguarded against water pollution. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 21 The swill-fed cow soon disappeared and a well-balanced ration is now fed to the herds. Cows Jersey, Guernsey, Holstein and grades of these breeds are in evidence; the scrub cow is seldom found. There is one solid Jersey herd; another in which Guernseys predominate; these two breeds give the richest of milk. Unfortunately, but few producers know the unit value of their herds, but they are learning this and other things. The inspection of the plants and the collection of samples of milk for examination was begun early in the year and.on May 31, the results were far from satisfactory, as the milk was frequently adulterated and dirty, when the following letter was sent to every person who produced milk for the market or sold it after it was produced: "June 1, 1910. I have been instructed by the Board of Sanitary Commissioners to enforce the milk regulations pf this city; therefore, this is your notice that the standard for whole or pure milk and the bacterial standard, specified in the regulations, must be met. Whole or pure milk is not less than 3.5 per cent, butter fat; solids not fat not less than 8.5 per cent.; totals solid not less than 12 per cent.; specific gravity, 1030; water, not more than 88 per cent.; bacterial standard not more than 500,000, April 1 to November 1. After'June 30, 1910, any milk found not coming up to said standard will cause revocation of permit in the person producing or selling such milk. This law has been in effect for nearly six months and will be rigidly enforced after the date mentioned above." 220 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT The results are apparent in the tables which follow. In the first period, 49 per cent, of the milk came up to the ftandard for quality and cleanliness. In the second period, 85 per cent, was good, clean milk. This improvement was forced by fines or by withdrawals from business of imcompetents or those who were worse than incompetent. DAIRIES JANUARY 21 to JUNE 30 &s t 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 V 1 1 3 1 z 14 13 21 20 11 22 12 8 8 38 22 33 20 15 18 23 22 Jt s E 3 55 55 W ^ O MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 223 si o1 ti &H i * t~ 3 i .5 Pk Ss | e g ^ B &J1 i 18 ,S-S O c P sa "1| S 4) *3*+3 SI'S 4i CO iCflrHi-HC^lO ICO I r-t & tftft O> CO * OS CO i-l 4 -< i i CR I f-t t i-^OOiO < C4f"* JM l g ^2 (3 *>. *^. u S3 > 0 "t3 1" .S.S *Eo "^^ O*C*tS +* +5 cscfi lOOO W *H ~^ O00 i "*O3 *$**-*O *-i *l 06NCS1 i -^ ICO I I l t?O*"4 i t i I IC4 i 3 4 1 9 7 15 _ 3 5 10 2 Jj i s ^ 9 10 4 4 17 7 85 1 5 13 14 21 a s 12 13 17 6 8 28 86 2 4 28 16 7 REMARKS Retired from business in April. Started business Sep. 29 Started business Dec. 1 Started business July 20 JULY 1 to DRCKMBER 31 . 5 1VI s 1 1 25 12 32 12 32 178 26 26 18 49 29 50 13 16 20 x X e w t 1 2 1 1 3 I 2 _ ; je V, B & 2 2 1 6 2 3 3 2 1 1 3 _ S s 9 5 _ 2 6 18 12 11 5 6 8 6 7 4 6 REMARKS Retired from business in Sept. Retired from business in Oct. g j^. H< O c/5 ^ d >F1 JO W O H i 1 Milk Shipped to City 9 1 6 8 7 i 1 4 1 .. 7 1 5 8 4 ; i Holton, Ga. Macon, Ga. Lorraine, Ga. Oliver, Ga. Sandersville, Ga. Gordon, Ga. 9 12 1 1 _ _ _ - 2 _ - 2 5 _ - Shipment stopped in April. Four shipments shipped as skimmed milk. Cream Shipped to City 2 1 8 \ 7 . 2 1 8 Forsyth, Ga. Sandersville, Ga. Macon, Ga. Worthen, Ga. 2 - . 2 Began shipping in December. Inspections Skimmed Watered Unclean Inspections Skimmed Watered Unclean Totals 1527 174 650 598 1797 27 105 23!> S MK;4 o w 5? 2 NOTE The dairy and depot permit numbers and the numbers used in this table do not correspond. M O *? 226 MAYOR S ANNUAL REPORT As will be noted, this city is not getting, nor will it ever get a perfect milk. So far it has been, first, a campaign of suggestion and education for those in the business who needed it, followed by enforcing the requirements of the law which calls for nothing but clean producers and handlers of milk, clean housing of cows, clean food and water, clean containers, clean cows and standard milk in quality and cleanliness. It protects the public from disease, and, at the same time, increases the revenue of every honest, capable producer or dealer. Your Health Officer has been a public servant for years and it is unquestionably the best sanitary work he has been called upon to do; laborious and never ending, but of infinite sanitary value to the people he is paid to serve. The city has provided a motor car for the rapid movement of your Health Officer. Without this, the work he has performed would have been impossible and even with it he has worked seven days in every week during the year, .with the exception of two days' vacation. To the consumer, your Health Officer would say that you can now observe in the public statement the character of milk furnished; you can note if it is of good quality and if it is clean. Failing to be either, the same exhibit tells you from whom you can get as good milk as can be found in any city of the United States. He would suggest that you buy your milk, brought to you cold, in a glass bottle properly capped to exclude air and dirt and refrigerate each container immediately after it has been delivered. If you will but do these few things you will have safeguarded the food which is the most perfect human ration known and yet the easiest contaminated. Avoid "dipped" milk; "dipped" milk is that which is sold from any receptacle from which the cover is frequently removed to obtain the quantity desired by the purchaser. An original five- or ten-gallon can of milk, after MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 227 being opened twenty or thirty times in the course of a few hours, becomes unclean and soon sours. While the report of Dr. Bassett, City Bacteriologist, will be full and complete, your Health Officer must say that without the use of the Laboratory there could be no efficient milk laws. The work of milk examination has been thorough and is so on account of the liberal support of your administration which has resulted in the full equipment with every apparatus for examination of milk, and, in fact, for every other research work until Savannah stands, to-day, a leader in its sanitary protection of the health of its citizens, and by the skilled work of the Director of the Laboratory and his assistant, Miss Van de Vrede. Mr. Coleman, who collects samples of milk, is a practical dairyman, who knows his business, is indefatigable in his work, which really goes farther than the routine of obtaining samples for examination, and has been of much service to the city in the improvement of its milk supply. Sanitary Inspection The following table will give you some idea of the good work performed by the sanitary inspectors. Nearly all of this work is performed in places that the public never observe and this does not hold good with any other branch of the city service. Its worth in the preservation of the public health is unquestioned. This force of men as a body are probably the best and is the result of their having had now four years' experience in this work; for, simple as it is, it takes time for a man to learn what is hidden on premises from the public view. Sanitary Inspection, Year 1910 Water service shut off from watercloset.__....................... 228 Sewers choked..._............. ................................................ 135 228 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Sewers broken..._................_..._......._.._... 142 Sewers leaking.___............................................................... 17 Sewage escaping to yards, alleys, lanes and streets............ 112 Waterclosets choked_..__...................................................1715 Watercloset bowl leaking........................._................. 44 Watercloset bowl overflowing.___....................................... 18 Watercloset bowl broken or cracked__......................... 8 Watercloset bowl insecure._..__....................................... 13 Watercloset bowl disconnected.....___................................. 47 Watercloset waste pipe broken._...._.._............__..._...... 3 Watercloset waste pipe leaking..-.................................... 8 Watercloset wasce pipe with hole......................................... 2 Watercloset trap broken._...... ......................_ 12 Watercloset trap leaking..._................................................. 22 Watercloset trap disconnected................................................ 39 Watercloset trap without cap on vent opening..._........... 79 Watercloset trap with vent cap insecurely placed.............. 40 Watercloset tank valve deranged, preventing proper flush of water............................................................................. 176 Watercloset tank loosened from brackets or wall support 20 Watercloset tank leaking.-............................................... 22 Watercloset tank overflowing........................................... 24 Watercloset tank missing..._...._............................................... 13 Watercloset flush pipe leaking.............................. ................. 139 Watercloset flush pipe broken............................................... 21 Watercloset flush pipe punctured.-..___.....;....................... 24 Watercloset flush pipe choked__............................................. 43 Watercloset flush pipe missing.__....................................... 4 Watercloset flush pipe disconnected...................................... 20 Watercloset flooring in disrepair........................................... 133 No watercloset floor.__......................................................... 11 Bathtub waste pipe or trap choked____.......................... 64 Bathtub waste pipe leaking.................................................... 31 Bathtub waste pipe in disrepair___................................. 4 Wash-basin wastepipe or trap choked..._..__..................... 10 Wash-basin wastepipe leaking.-...................................... 4 Wash-basin wastepipe in disrepair.___.._.......................... 3 Sink wastepipe or trap choked.-.._...................................... 14g MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 229 Sink wastepipe or trap leaking..._....................................... 38 Sink wastepipe broken____................................................. 16 Sink wastepipe disconnected................................................. 15 Sink wastepipe with hole.___.............................................. 4 Urinal wastepipe or trap leaking........................................... 6 Urinal wastepipe choked..-.............-................................ 2 Hydrants leaking badly, causing unsanitary condition.-... 25 Water supply leaking badly, causing unsanitary condition 4 Watercloset supply pipe leaking badly, causing unsanitary condition............................................................................ 42 Vacant houses inspected.. _..................................................... 328 Yards littered with trash, kitchen refuse, etc..__............. 327 Under houses littered with trash, etc......._....................... 38 Lots littered with trash, etc.._.._....................................... 5 Sheds littered with trash, etc................................................. 4 Alleys littered with trash, etc............................................ 7 Houses littered with trash, etc............................................... 7 Stores littered with trash, etc...._........................................... 4 Outbuildings littered with trash, etc................................. 3 Cellars, basements, flats littered with trash, etc..____... 5 Roofs defective and leaking................................................... 32 Weeds growing on private property (notices sent), lots, tracts, etc...................................................................... 208 Weeds growing in yards....................................................... 35 Weeds growing in streets, lanes and other public places (notices sent)._........................................................... 36 Privy and surface vaults caved, with defective curbing, etc............................................................................... 12 Privy vaults for cleaning.-___.............................................1322 Privy vaults defective (defect not specified,)...... 11 Privy houses dilapidated._............................................... 7 Privy vaults for abandonment..................... .................... 13 Drawer closets reported for cleaning.................................. 179 Holes in yard used for privy purposes (nuisance)...__..... 2 Surface vaults for cleaning..................................................... 26 Dry wells with water in same................................................ 3 Dry wells for cleaning and abandonment..... ................ 5 Manure in lots.................................................................... 11 230 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Manure in stalls...................................... .___......... 13 Manure in yards.............................................................. 13 Manure in shed__........................................................... 1 No sanitary conveniences for occupied premises.___...... 5 Water service insufficient........................................................ 17 No water service to occupied premises._........................... 32 Houses abused by trespassers.___................................. 25 Warehouses abused by trespassers.____.._............_........... 2 Stormwater leaders and gutters to same, choked_........... 18 Stormwater leaders corroded.................................................. 4 Stormwater leaders improperly diverting rainfall...... 17 Stormwater leaders disconnected___................................. 20 Stormwater leaders with lengths missing._............ 8 Stormwater pipes missing._........._................................... 5 Ditches holding stagnant water.__..................................... 4 Defective drainage of yards................................................. 17 Defective drainage of lots._................................... 10 Defective drainage beneath houses................................. 18 Yard cesspools in disrepair, causing escape waste to yards.-..__..._........._............................ 23 Nuisances.___.............. ............................................_. 10 Defective drainage of streets and lanes (referred to Director of Public Works)..--... 15 Irregular scavenger service reported (referred to Director Public Works).__......................................................... 6 Garbage in streets and lanes.____....................... 4 Improper placing of garbage cans from apartments, etc... 14 Docket case on account violation Milk Ordinance........... 12 Docket case on account refusal to relieve stoppage in sewer.___................_............................... 4 Docket case on account not attending to unsanitary urinal waste pipe.__........................................................... 1 Docket case on account maintaining unsanitary stable premises._......................................................... 1 Docket case on account not having excavation filled in after sewer clearance....................................................... 1 Docket case on account not repairing leaky refrigerator.-. 1 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 231 Docket case on account of not properly disposing of manure-._............................................................................. 1 Docket case on account violation of weed ordinance._... 17 Docket case on account refusal to clean filthy premises.... 1 Docket case on account removal of dead body without permit...._T...................................................................... 1 Docket case on account not repairing leaky pipe._........... 1 Docket case on account not providing sanitary convenience._............................................................................. 2 Docket case on account interfering with inspector in dis* charge of duty._............................................................... 1 Docket case on account not repairing defective watercloset.......-........................................................................ 1 Docket case on account not repairing hydrant flooding yard.................................................................................. 1 Docket case on account not repairing leaky waste pipe of sink__..............................................__....................... 1 Docket case on account not repairing leaky watercloset supply pipe........................................................................ 1 Docket case on account not repairing defective closet bowl 2 Docket case on account removal bedding from infected room____.._._._._..__...._.___........_._....__ 1 Obsolete waterclosets referred to Inspector of Plumbing.. 22 Defective flush of automatic watercloset tanks referred to Inspector of Plumbing...__........................................... 12 Waterclosets in bad order referred to Inspector of Plumbmg.__............................................................................ 21 Defective bathtubs and wastepipes to same referred to Inspector of Plumbing.__............................................. 8 Defective venting of fixtures referred to Inspector of Plumbing._.................. ................ ^.............................. 8 Defective watercloset bowl referred to Inspector of Plumbing._..................................................................... 5 Defective sink and wastepipes referred to Inspector of Plumbing...-......................................_......................._. 5 Defective water service to closets referred to Inspector of .....~............................................................... 5 232 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Investigation of offensive odors referred to Inspector of Plumbing.__............................................._._............... 4 Improper connection of stormwater pipe to sewer referred to Inspector of Plumbing................................................ 3 All other complaints referred to Inspector of Plumbing.... 5 Leaks brought to attention Water Department..................2001 Total__...................................................................8831 Your Health Officer has always held that the prevailing American idea that the city which shows the greatest increase in its population is the city which attracts the best class of citizens, is an erroneous one. He holds that the city which provides best for its citizens is the city which will finally attract the best people to it. This city stands pre-eminently in the front rank of American cities in the safeguarding. of the health of that class of its people who need help, yet we have with us a population which needs help extended to them, of which they are sorely in need. To improve these people in their health and morals is a duty we owe to them and to ourselves. I refer to the negroes, a population which is easily in excess of the whites. A people or that portion where the negro blood predominates over the white blood, depends absolutely on the white race for everything that makes up a civilization. If he is allowed to remain here as he is, he will be a menance to himself and to us. That he is better than he is generally though to be is self-evident to one who has observed him carefully for years. Judge not the race by observations of him in the criminal courts, not in the hospitals. "While he is not a white man painted black, with all of the mentality and morality of that race, neither is he incapable of improvement over his present position. Unless you legislate for him so that his sanitary conditions will improve, he will continue to furnish a high mortality. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 233 Note how many of his children are born dead and then follow the high infantile mortality up to the fifth year and then go and observe carefully the reason for it. It would be just the same result with the white race if they lived in the same environment. Certainly, the death-rate among the children would be the same. Born in closely-congested districts in the least healthy parts of the city or in narrow lanes, he seldom has a fair chance for a healthy existence. After he is grown, he gets no better chance, he is in the same bad sanitary environment and loses his resisting power to disease, the same as any other human being would under the same conditions. For proof of this, see his death-rate from tuberculosis and pneumonia. This is but the sanitary aspect of him. Again, your Health Officer would recommend that a commission be appointed to inquire into why he dies in excess of the whites; why he is a bad citizen in the eyes of the law. Investigate his manner of living and investigate those that live on him. This recommendation is made for the public good; it is made in order that we better ourselves. After many years' service as the Health Officer of this city, your Health Officer would say that the sanitary interests have been looked after by your four years' of administration more carefully by the enaction of sanitary laws and by liberal appropriations than ever before. The confidence expressed *by you is a matter of pride on the part of Yours respectfully, W. F. BRUNNER, M. D. Health Officer. 8-A Asthenia -------- __ ......Abcess of----------- lunes.. > [fl h *-N> ^ ,_ *-* _. h^ to >- *. 10 to 01 > Arterio sclerosis". .. ...... k-* ( ^ I 1 H- ! * __ _ I k 1 1 1 1 t 1 1 w i -a > ?g1 3 r-" 1 M to Apoplexy. .................. Aooendicitis. __ .---------- H-*. _. Hto to -*. 1 1 * to 1 to 1 CO 1 i h- - CO 1 1 r -*. to _^ 3J-4 I 1 Aneurism- ------------------ wA k* i 1 ,_, _ _ to ^ > q r 3 * > W ^ i~* i_> ^ to > r> O 1 M* to |IH* _ H. -cnw ycr O 0 J.i 3* IB 1 51 |lt 3*0* o o o fl> CA in w 2>S ?8 IS i fl> 1 ^ H* *" "" - M __-4 MM >- rcrcr '/} vt vi in to tn 3 JCS*. Cfl i i ^ t^ ^~> t . tOh3* n A s. 3" _t OP CAUSES DEATH ^ O ^ o ^ o ^ o ^ o ^ o ^ o ^ o ^ n ^ o ^ o ^ o ^ o W&C January February March April May June July August September October November December Total Grand Total I e. o 0 CO S.HOAVW vzz Brain, congestion of. __.__.. Bright 's disease.... _. -------- Bronchitis............. _-_-.- Cancer.. __ ___.__._____._- Cancer of bladder. ._-___-..__ Cancer of breast- ____._.-_._. Cancer of face ...... ...... Cancer of throat. ............ Cholera infantum ............ Cirrhosis of liver.. . .......... Cystitis... . ................. Child birth. ................. Dementia- ..-_--.-.-.--..... Diabetes. ................... Diarrhoea.. .... ............ Diphtheria- .-...-..---.--., Dropsy. .................... Dysentery. .................. 13911111 33 ?,\411 115 31e1111 11 ?!111 4511151 13111111 2 fi11 >)15 ^1 ?,1 170112 3 ?:111? 1\131 ?!14102 1141 4Q ?,\11 ;2 271121 ?211141 ^1 1111111111 341411 ???31 f,1 ?, fi14? .511 ?, 34 (^11 114111111 113 ?, 111 ,; 341 fi5 4fi31 >0134111 *>1*1 fi114?1t 10 20 13 o 50 55 2 CJ 50 tfl 10w o< 236 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 11?1O T ^ T)UBJ*"I "AO\ a JSC^O^DQ *4dsS ^snSny XB atmf XinfK .ud V M tref TO ^K 09M r uooi r ^oo^ * &0o^o^y^0^ OF CAUSES DEATH N"-"CO 1C i-t CMi l-IN" * * ~i 4^ *"*! a 1C j: '^ tr -?! 2^^" '- CM1; "i CM co CM1! '-| usN CO '-"' T-*11 |COIM -i -1400 (M-.CM f CO JMCM -" KM F-H T 1 1^ ^ g-2 .w -S2 T-1 CM cfl]+ *T3 + C C R i ! % .2 r-H c tt >w1> '& '* | ^0 r-H r J CM 10 O-CM^t * CD CMI lO "" - co co CO T-41 coIIi 1 c T 1 L ' " , > > > o cc , C M- (M1 - CO-1 "'!1 1O0 TUB Ca if 1 1u^ 1-1 ^ rt CM C^ CD z**** 1 ( "H Til 1 MrtI CO CM 1-1 TtT-4 T-l 3 r-^ T4 rt 3 a, oISOI 00 .sIc a Ileo colitis. Indigestion, acute,. ........ .. Influneza-.----- ---------- - Marasmus Meningitis, cerebro-spinal. Meningitis, tubercular. ....... Morphinism-.-.- ----------- Myocarditis- ................ Myelitis Old age __ -.--------.---.. Ovaritis.-- .-... ........ Paralysis. .....-----.----_.-- Patent foramen ovale ..... Pellagra .... .. .......... Pericarditic. ......... . Peritonitis. -----...... 5191111111 3111o7915 f>1141 511 9, 9:1 1111?11111 9, 9, 541 ?, 1391411 1119 fi11 9, 11 11 fi 9, 9, 51 511133 fi12 9, 1?913 1311 fi3411 111311 11 fi9333 1 ,,1111 i)113141 1 9, 911 9, 41531 11 9, 5 1131111 11t114 9, 2 1 t)91nq1 131 9, 1191 111131 9, 8 11 113 9, 1154117 ?, 5131 34 11141 fi o 93 1?,71117 5762 361 43171 10 3 24 238302311 12611 82 1325151 701 542 1111 16 3 !> JO 25aw3o *"* 2 (O co Annual Report of Deaths from Natural Causes in the City of Savannah, Ga., for 1910 CAUSE OP DEATH Pharyngitis.-... _ _- ._- . Prostititis __ . .............. 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V w 0 4 10 !) 7 8 3 8 1 4 6 6 75 C 2 5 o 4 5 O 3 2 4 36 E S 0 MIS W 3 3 3 4 6 2 4 4 2 4 o 4 41 C 2 1 I i 8 4 3 15 8= * iin , I o W I ._ C 1 i 3 3 S w 60 35 47 53 43 47 38 52 40 40 50 57 571 C 8!) 70 86 82 103 4 85 78 84 70 106 114 1070 I (2 o O 140 105 133 135 146 141 123 130 133 119 156 171 1641 240 MAYOR'S AXXUALREPORT Ho!* 4sl-v H_ _ to O. 1 1 *- >_* *. ! 01 to CO1 ,_11W Ol *- to0 CO Cn Ol 3O 1 I en . ko1r to_ ^-* 10u a. 3' I 3Ot-H * i oo jC _A "0 Oi's513 tr 5 _ ______________ Poison, potash..... ,_I chloroform. ..--___________ Poison, |_4 v~* _* carbolic _.__Poison, acid__._._._ ^ w to ^-* -- >- Perforation of____ ..... Intestines, Internal iniuries--- _.___-___ _ i i *_, ^i to| ,_i CO; to!i!; h3 j i t-_ *. Gunshot wound._ _______ ______ i i ^ h- M O I 0> td c I-* ,_, ^J i->!^ h-* !- _ h^ -* H. _ - Accidents .Brain, Concussion of,_____. to bo t IO I1 to to to -40. -5^ OF CAUSES DEATH ^O^o -|3O^O^o^o ^o -si o^o^o ->1 o -^o3o w&c January February March April May June July August September October November December Total Grand Total B* O9 OB.j CO its ivriNNV s. 242 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT I *1 & i CO 1e> JBg CO < mM .a tf& a SW I IO I PU J'O jaqmaAox jaquwDaQ' J aqopQ X nf Inl W qojefll Am d wnuBf CAUSES DEATH .OF D*A\ ; i O : ^ ; ; o^o^ g: o p: O : o^W?o^o^o g: o^ c Homicides "C< i- 11 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 243 SONlQ "* C-3P3 < CO COCN CM f CDH | M r- CO -H IM IOO iO COCN i 00 T-l "! r-t > 1 W 7 20 1 -- C 32 46 10 1 2 >> V a > i W 7 24 4 1 1 1 1 C 23 46 20 -- f> .X a> > W 5 19 4 o, 1 1 C 29 35 18 -- ?: 1 W 5 26 1 fl "?, 1 1 C 24 43 8 0 -- 1 1 W 9 22 6 1 1 1 1 C 19 46 15 1 1 1 1 $ W 4 17 5 1 'i i i c 23 44 10 1 -- o 'S, W 1 25 5 1 3 } 1 1 C 31 54 14 o T 1 1 w 7 21 6 1 "i 1 1 c 30 53 22 2 1 2 1 3 $ W 70 257 44 () 11 1H 3 3 5 5 2 fl 9 1 fl 1 1 1 1 1 1 C 300 52!) 170 11 !) 10 5 1 1 2 1 _ 1 -3 Co Ofo =3 e: 370 786 220 20 20 10 13 8 0 5 3 2 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 o 50 o5 > Z as r 90 Missouri. -----.___.__.--____ New Hampshire ____ .---.. United States __ . _ _.._.__. Ireland.-... ______ ....._... Germany.- __ ... --------- England. ................... Greece.. ...... ............. Canada.. .. ............_.... Norway and Sweden ___ ... Italv Scotland.......-......-.---. Austria _ .................. China ____ ................ Europe. ...... . .. . . Finland __ ................ France.. ___ .............. Holland... ............... Poland .-- __ .............. Portugal- _ - _..-.--_-___-.. Wales...................... Unknown. ......_........... Total...-...-.--...... f. 1 ?: 1 1 1 1 60 1 89 1 3 1 1 1 35 1 1 70 7 3 ?, 1 1 47 1 1 86 1 8 1 1 53 1 82 in 1 ?, 1 1 43 1 103 1 4 1 1 1 47 1 1 1 94 1 3 1 1 38 1 85 3 4 3 ?: 1 1 52 78 3 1 1 1 1 1 49 84 ?, y, 3 1 1 1 40 1 70 3 1 1 1 1 ? 1 1 1 50 1 2 106 1 1 7 3 3 1 1 1 1 57 --- f 114 1 1 0 56 18 14 ft 5 3 3 ?, ? 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 571 10 4 3 11 70 1 1 13 56 18 14 6 5 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 14 1641 O 90 CO > z z G "XJ O to 4- BACTERIOLOGIST'S OFFICE PREPARATION ROOM FOUR VEIWS OF THE LABORATORY ROOM LABORATORY ROOM BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY 5I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 249 REPORT OF CITY BACTERIOLOGIST SAVANNAH, GA,, January 1, 1911. DR. W. F. BRUNNER, Health Officer and Secretary, Board of Sanitary Commissioners, City of -Savannah, Ga. Sis:The report of the City Bacterologist, covering the work of the laboratory for the period beginning January 1, 1910, and ending December 31, 1910, is here submitted. The work of the City Laboratory covers two main fields: (1) Examinations for the diagnosis of the transmissible diseases which by law are required to be reported to the Health Officer; (2) Examinations, chemical or bacteriological, bearing on problems of hygienic, sanitary and ecomonic interest. It is not always possible to draw the line of separation between these fields of work. For instance, the examination of milk is mainly done for the purpose of preventing the transference of certain diseases which are known to be carried by milk. Such examinations have, however, also a well-defined economic interest. During the past year the work of the laboratory has increased mainly in the field of hygiene and sanitation. The report of this department for 1909 deals very fully with the question of the scope and limitations of the work of a Board of Health Laboratory. It does not seem necessary to repeat at length the arguments advanced in previous reports. For the information of those who apply to the laboratory for service, the regulations of the Board of Sanitary Commissioners published in 1908 are here presented, with the additions which have been found necessary as the work has developed. Particular attention is called to the 250 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT provision for any special examinations which may be considered necessary by the executive officer of the Board. The laboratory places at the disposal of the physicians of Savannah, free of charge, the following services, which have a bearing upon the control of public health: (1) Examination of throat cultures for diphtheria bacilli; (2) Examination of blood for widal reaction in suspected cases of typhoid fever; (3) Examination of blood for malarial parasites; (4) Examination of sputum for tubercle bacilli; (5) Examination of dogs for diagnosis of rabies; (6) Examination of feces for ova of hookworm and other parasites; (7) Such special examinations of ice, water, and of milk and other food used in Savannah, as shall be determined necessary by the Health Officer. In addition to the above, the following examinations are now made: (8) Examination of urine of typhoid patients, for the diazo-reaction; (9) Examination of urine of typhoid patients, by culture methods. (10) Examination of blood of typhoid patients, by culture methods; (11) Examination of blood of typhoid patients (leucocyte count and differential count). MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 251 (12) Examination of exudate from cases of ophthalmia. (13) Examination of fluid obtained by lumbar puncture, for the diagnosis of meningitis. The work will be extended as indicated by the needs of the community. Physicians are requested to communicate with the department in regard to such special needs, and to refer requests for all special examinations to the Health Officer. For the present, examinations other than those listed above will not be undertaken, except on special order of the Health Officer. The laboratory has in stock special outfits for the securing of material for examination. Outfits may be secured and material left for examination at any one of the following stations: (1) Huff's Pharmacy, 122 West Broad street: (2) Knight's Pharmacy, 102 Oglethorpe avenue, East; (3) Solomons' Drug Store, 336 Bull street; (4) Kieffer's Drug Store, West Broad street and Park Avenue; (5) Persse's Drug Store, 202 Henry street, East. Specimens left at the stations during the day will be collected at 5:00 p. m. Specimens may be left at the laboratory until 600 p. m. Diphtheria cultures, which require prompt examination, may be left after office hours with the City Bacteriologist; address, 402 Henry street, East. Telephone No. 4024. The examination made during the current year are presented in tabular form as follows: 252 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT cc fre Xj-enuEf cs-.csocc; -r >-> M re ?! ^i^ i t- 1~- ?i ->t ~ c: o co re jaqmajdag ^^^i 30 ^ 'Sp1 lW 5j;Jt]; '22S ______t____ "~ ' " *" ' "rere 3! _oc_ C-) _cc oo re re icic-^sO'^T-iocc no^^f^re iOs_ rt _> _t ?i >-?) ^- -Hrere rere r~ o oe aomf I -> s -t "O 5C ?i -t ?i ic : x o cr. 5 re re -fucre i * x x re re r- * C tre CO ^. dac t o c*i oc ci co co I! "* o .g Mwb ggass|ii S -..- --S.S.S o o o- > 4>.t; a U3 Ofl e o o c cjs+s JS II * t3^i I llll JUl lll-J-s'fs 1 1 - *" " " To V X 1 C rt #-< .8 C oc, rre c] O d 3 * MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 253 In order to show more completely the scope of the work of the laboratory, the following condensed table, covering all the examinations made since October 1, 1908, is presented: Recapitulation Total number of examinations for tuberculosis....... 724 Total number of examinations for typhoid fever._.._. 518 Total number of examinations for diphtheria........._..... 1,330 Total number of examinations for malarial fever.......... 517 Total number of examinations for animal parasites...... 549 Total number of examinations for meningitis...__..... 11 Total number of examinations of milk and other foods 7,733 Total number of special examinations............................. 361 Grand total___....................................................... 11,743 The examinations in clinical pathology have probably reached the maximum for the population served, except that proper arrangements for extending the service of the laboratory more fully to charity cases would increase ohe work. It is recommended that suitable measures be taken to extend the service in this way. The following brief discussion of the results of the laboratory work is presented. Tuberculosis In all 379 examinations of sputum were made for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. Of these examinations 97 were positive. In many cases an early diagnosis was secured by the means of the sputum examination, and in others a prompt confirmation of an early diagnosis made by physical methods. In the 282 negative examinations, negative reports were made only after long search for bacilli, often in duplicate specimens. An average time of thirty-two minutes was spent in search for bacilli in each specimen 254 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT before giving a negative report. It is recommended that apparatus be installed for the shaking and sedimentation of specimens after treatment with alkaline hypochlorite solution, so that the examination can be concluded in a shorter time. Malarial Fever The examinations for malarial fever were considerably increased in number during the year, owing in part, to drainage conditions of unusually bad character. Of 228 examinations 55 were positive for malarial parasites and 173 negative. An average period of over thirty minutes was spent in examination of each specimen before a negative report was made. Of the 55 positive findings, the tertian form of the parasite was found in 17 instances, the aestivoautumnal parasite in 38 instances. The infection seems to be endemic in certain parts of the city, and physicians should recommend the more general use of screens to exclude mosquitoes from dwelling houses in infected districts. Typhoid Fever A total number of 200 examinations was made for the diagnosis of typhoid fever, which fortunately, on account of our excellent water supply and safeguarded milk supply is not a very common disease in the city. Of a total number of 193 Widal tests, 27 were reported positive and 28 suggestive. Urine examinations were requested of the laboratory in only 7 instances. Your bacteriologist again reports that it is his opinion that more frequent and searching blood examinations would be of great value in the early diagnosis of typhoid fever. Animal Parasites In all 182 examinations were made for animal parasites. Some of these examinations are listed under the term special examinations. The results are tabulated as follows: MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 255 Hookworm, negative.............................................................. Ill Hookworm, positive...__.................................................... 61 Cercomonas intestinalis__..__........._.......................................... 3 Cysticercus cellulosae.__........................................................... 1 Ascaris lumbricoides.__....................................................... 1 Larva migrans.__..................................................................... . 1 Larv* of fly (sarcophaga) passed in stooL........................... 1 Other insect parasites........................................................... 2 Pseudo parasite........ ............................. -...................:......... 1 Total__........................................................................... 182 Meningitis But 4 examinations for the diagnosis of meningitis were required of the laboratory during the year. Of these one was a case of pneumococcic meningitis, the other three tubercular. In all, since the establishment of the laboratory in 1908, there have been only 11 examinations for meningitis. Not a single case of cerebro-spinal fever (meningoccoccic meningitis) has come under our observation. Rabies The following examinations have been made for the diagnosis of rabies: May 2, 1910, head of dog, positive diagnosis of rabies. June 26, 1910, head of dog, positive diagnosis of rabies. June 27, 1910, head of dog, positive diagnosis of rabies. June 19, 1910, head of dog, positive diagnosis of rabies. July 30, 1910, post mortem, child, negative diagnosis of rabies. September 2, 1910, head of dog, positive diagnosis of rabies. 256 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT September 26, 1910, head of dog, examination unsatisfactory. October 4, 1910, head of dog, positive diagnosis of rabies. As compared with the year 1909 about the same number of specimens have been presented for examination. There is evidently a constant source of this infection in our midst, but there has been no marked increase in the number of cases. Owing to the more general appreciation of the danger of bites from dogs that are sick, the specimens are more promptly presented for examination and the results more conclusive. Diphtheria A total of 621 examinations was made for the diagnosis and control of diphtheria. Of these 285 examinations were made for diagnosis, 121 being positive and 165 negative. Among the positive examinations are listed 9 cases of laryngeal diphtheria, 5 cases of nasal diphtheria and 1 case of diphtheritic vaginitis. Attention is called to the great value of the direct examination of the swabs returned for examination. In over fifty-two per cent, of the positive examinations, a positive diagnosis was made at once from the direct examination of the swab, without waiting for the development of the culture. Especially in doubtful cases, this direct examina- ' tion is often a means of saving time and affords an exact indication for the early use of antitoxin. A total of 335 examinations was made for control of quarantine, including 185 positive examinations and 150 negative. The average period of quarantine was fifteen days. It is recommended that two negative cultures be required for release of quarantine. Examination of Milk During the year there has been made 6,956 examinations of milk and cream, including 3,474 chemical examinations MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 257 and 3,482 bacteriological examinations, all of which have been made in duplicate. In addition samples which do not come up to standard are usually subjected to re-examinatiou in duplicate, to insure accuracy. As a routine method, the fat is determined by the Babcock method or by some modification of this method. The specific gravity is determined by the lactometer or by the specific gravity balance. From this data the total solids and the solids not fat are calculated by the formula of Babcock. If the sample comes up to standard by these tests, it is passed. If below standard, the cotal . solids are determined by gravimetric methods, a second determination of fat made, and the solids not fat determined by difference. In addition, we have lately added a Zeiss Dipping Refractometer for taking refractometer readings of milk serum, and are thus enabled to detect small amounts of water and to verify the results of the routine analysis. To determine the number of bacteria in the samples, dilutions are made in sterile salt solution, usually, 1 to 100, and cultures made in neutral agar-agar. At the end of three days the plates are counted and the number of bacteria per centum estimated. The results of the examinations of milk are presented in the following tables: Chemical Examinations Total Milk Solids (Standard 12.%) Specimens containing from 12.5 to 12.9% total solids.-.. ..... ......... Specimens containing from 12 to 12.4% total solids.... .....-...--..-... Specimens containing less than 12% total solids..... ....... ............ Milk Solids Other than Fat (Standard 8.5%) Specimens containing more than 9% solids not fat.. ......... .......... Specimens containing from 8.5 to 8.9% solids not ...................... Specimens containing from 8 to 8.4% solids not fat... .................. Specimens containing less than 8% solids not fat ... ...._............. Butter Fat (Standard 3.5%) Specimens containing more than 4% fat.. .......... ................. . Specimens containing from 3.5 to 3.9% tat ...... ..-.--.----........... Specimens containing from 3 to 3.4% fat. . ........................... . Specimens containing less than 3% fat... ...-....._......--..-....._. Period January 1 to June 30, 1900 No. of Specimens 486 3H 306 429 226 541 404 364 849 516 129 41 Percentage 31.7% 20.5% 19.9% . 27.9% 14.7% 35.2% 26.4% 23.7% 55.3% 33.6% 8.5% 2.6% Period Julv 1 to Dec. 31, 1910 No. of Specimens 1266 449 136 57 643 941 255 69 1664 203 26 16 Percentage 66.3% 23.5% 7.1% 3.0% 33.7% 49.3% 13.4% 3.6% 87.2% 10.6% 1-4% 0.8% 258 MAYOR ANNUALREPORT S Bacteriological Examinations Standard April 1 to November I, 500,000 bacteria per cc. November 1 to April 1, 300,000 bacteria per cc. Specimens containing less than 100,000 bacteria per cf.-......-...-.-...^ Specimens containing more than 100,000 bacteria per cc., but less than the standard as above indicated -..-_.--.---.-..----_--.---.------.. Specimens containing more than the standard as above indicated but less than 1,000.000 bacteria per cc. ___ -..-..--..-.....-----.------- 378 500 292 245 OS \OJ 30.2% 10 AOf 16.3% 827 826 186 88 42.9% 49 nOf, 0 R<%. 4. fife. 55i O 50 03 G > r IO Ol <0 260 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT The ordinance of September 8, 1909, relative to production of clean milk, was not in force until January 1, 1910. For practical purposes it was not possible to secure enforcement of the law until July 1, 1910. The result of milk examination published in the report of the Bacteriologist for 1909 and also the examinations listed in this report prior to July 1, 1910, are therefore representative of conditions existing before the enforcement of the law. The results of the analysis of samples taken after July 1, 1910, may be taken as indicating whether the law has been observed. Even a cursory examination of the results as tabulated will show that there has been a marked improvement in the character of market milk in this city. Consider first the standard for total solids, 12 per cent, minimum. During the period ending June 30, 27.9 per cent, of the samples fell below the legal standard. Whereas during the period in which the law was enforced from July 1 to December 31, 1910, only 3 per cent, of the samples showed less than 12 per cent, of total solids. The legal standard for solids not fat is 8.5 per cent. If milk contains less than 8.5 per cent, of solids not fat, it is deficient and below standard, and in all probability has heen watered. If the solids not fat fall below 8.0 per cent., the milk has quite certainly been adulterated by the addition of water. Note in the table that in the first half of the year before the law was enforced 26.4 per cent, of the samples contained less than 8.5 per cent, of solids not fat, and 23.7 per cent, contained less than 8.0 per cent, solids not fat, or a total of 50.1 per cent, of the samples was below standard as measured by the content of solids not fat. During the second half of the year only 13.4 per cent, of samples contained between 8.0 and 8.5 per cent, of solids not fat; while only 3.6 per cent, showed less than 8.0 per cent, of solids not fat. It will be seen also that 11.1 per cent, of samples contained less than the standard of 3.5 per cent, butter fat in the first half of the year, while only 2.2 per cent, of the samples was deficient in butter fat during the second half of the year. Under inspection, over 87.2 per MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 261 cent, of the samples contained more than 4 per cent, of fat. It will be seen that the fat can be lowered appreciably by .the addition of water without bringing the milk below 3.5 per cent, fat content; while adulteration can be detected immediately by the low figure for solids not fat. The improvement is quite as marked when measured by the bacteriological standard. From the table it will be seen that before inspection 25.1 per cent, of the samples contained less than 100,000 bacteria per centum. This is regarded as evidence of the use of good methods by the dairymen who sell such milk. After inspection 42.9 per cent, of the milk was found to have a bacterial counc less than 100,000 per centum. Before inspection 64.3 per cent, of the samples was standard; after inspection 85.8 per cent, of samples was standard. Only 4.6 per cent, of samples after the strict enforcement of the law was found to contain abnormally large numbers of bacteria. The good results obtained by the enforcement of the ordinance governing the production and sale of milk is undoubted, and is largely the result of the faithful and painstaking work of the Health Officer in making inspections and bringing to the attention of the producer methods by which he could improve his supply. Data in the office indicate that we have a number of dairymen who are capable of producing milk of a high degree of purity. It is to be hoped that we will at some future time have a special certified milk for the use of infants and invalids. Milk of this character is produced usually under a system of inspection controlled by a Medical Milk Commission under the direction of the local Medical Society. Preservatives From time to time, as indicated, examinations were made to determine whether preservatives had been added to milk. During the year 42 examinations of this kind were made with negative results. 262 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Cream During the year 26 samples of cream were examined. Seven samples were found below standard by chemical test, 22 samples below standard by bacteriological test. Pasteurized Milk The following tests have been made of the efficiency of pasteurization during the year. In addition, a large number of examinations of pasteurized milk is included in list of milk examinations already reported. 1. Test of efficiency of pasteurization, September 9, 1910.. Method, Farrington Apparatus with holding device at 140 degrees F. Bacteria per cubic centimeter in raw milk, 178.000. Bacteria per cubic centimeter in pasteurized milk, 2,400. Percentage of bacteria killed by pasteurization, 98.5 per cent. Considering the low bacterial content of the raw milk, the test is considered satisfactory. 2. Test of efficiency of pasteurization, September 11, 1910, method as above. Bacteria per cubic centimeter in raw milk, 825,000. Bacteria per cubic centimeter in pasteurized milk, 4,400. Percentage of bacteria killed by pasteurization, 99. 6 per cent. This result is considered very good. In order that physicians may easily collect pathological material for examination, portable and convenient outfits for that purpose have been prepared, accompanied by printed data blanks. These outfits can be secured by physicians at the culture stations, as listed in the letter to physicians. It MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT | 263 is proposed also to place outfits in. the hospitals of the city. The following outfits are available: (1) Outfit (box, sterile bottle, and blank) for sputum in cases of suspected pulmonary tuberculosis. (2) Outfit (culture tube and sterile swabs) for making throat cultures in cases of suspected diphtheria. Blanks are furnished for diagnosis and for control of quarantine. (-3) Outfit (slide holder, slide, lancet, and blank) for the Widal examination of blood from cases of suspected typhoid fever. (4) Outfit (box, sterile vial, and blank) for the examination of urine from cases of suspected typhoid fever. (5) Outfit (culture tube and pipette, with lancet and blank) for blood culture in cases of suspected typhoid fever. (6) Outfit (flask of nutrient medium, sterile syringe, blank, etc.) for blood cultures in cases of suspected typhoid fever. (7) Outfit (box, slides, lancet, and blank) for blood examination for detection of parasites in cases of suspected malarial infection. (8) Outfit (box, sterile bottle, and blank) for the collection of feces and other material in cases of suspected infection with animal parasites. (9) Outfit (box, sterile vial, and blank) for the collection of spinal fluid in cases of suspected cerebro-spinal fever. (10) Outfit (box, culture tube, slide, swab, and blank) for examination of exudate from the eye in cases of suspected ophthalmia. 264 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Other special outfits are furnished on application. "Every endeavor has been made to secure convenient and practical outfits for the use of physicians, since it is considered that such facilities will add to the total number of examinations made. The cost of such outfits is considerable, but is a necessary part of the running expense. Reports are made to physicians by telephone as soon as the examinations are completed. Diphtheria cultures are examined first, and reported usually by 10 o'clock a. m. Widal examinations and other laboratory tests for typhoid fever are next made, and reported usually by 11 o'clock a. m. The examination of sputum and other material is then undertaken, the reports being made usually by midday. Written reports, on suitable blanks, are also made to physicians, to avoid the possibility of error. Every effort is made to secure accuracy in reports. Daily reports of all cases which are required by law to be reported are made to the Health Officer. Physicians are respectfully requested to note that these reports do not take the place of reports by physicians, as ; required by law, and which should also be made in writing j to the Health Officer. Blanks for this purpose are placed in . each outfit. I A monthly statement, covering the work of each period, ' is made to the Board of Sanitary Commissioners. The results of the laboratory examinations are entered on the data blanks, which are numbered serially, and filed for reference. For the convenience of physicians, and for ! ready reference to the results of the examinations, the data blanks are also indexed alphabetically. An inventory of apparatus and supplies, the property ! of the city, has been made and entered on a card index. I ' Additional apparatus and supplies, as purchased, are entered on this index. An account of the number and character of the outfits supplied to the culture stations and to physicians is also kept. Accounts are also kept of the supplies used in MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 265 the work of the laboratory, and of apparatus broken or injured in the course of the routine work. Accounts of incidental and other running expenses are kept, in the interest of economical administration, and to furnish a basis for estimates. Library The laboratory now possesses a number of sets of journals and year-books on bacteriology, pathology and chemistry, and is receiving a number of journals on hygiene and sanitation. These books and journals are of great value in the conduct of the work of the laboratory. In addition, an arrangement has been made with the Georgia Medical Society to keep the library of the Medical Society in the library room attached to this department. The laboratory workers thus have access to a large number of journals, largely of clinical interest, but which contain many articles on hygiene, sanitation and related subjects. In conclusion, your bacteriologist desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to the assistant bacteriologist, Miss Jane Van de Vrede, who has given faithful and skilled service in the conduct of the routine work and in the making and preservation of records; also to Mr. Elam Culpepper, who has given satisfactory service in the preparation of outfits, the sterlization of media, and in the collection of specimens from the culture stations. The thanks of the bacteriologist are due to the members of the Board of Sanitary Commissioners, and especially to the executive officer of the Board for hearty support; also to the physicians of the city for their co-operation. Respectfully submitted, VICTOR H. BASSETT, City Bacteriologist. 6-A 266 MYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT REPORT OF CITY PHYSICIANS Southern District Savannah, Ga., January 2, 1911. To THE MAYOR AXD ALDERMEN, City of Savannah, Ga., GENTLEMEN :I herewith submit my report as City Physician of the Southern District for the year 1910. Sent to Savannah HospitaL.................................................. 41 Sent to St. Joseph's Hospital......... ................................. 30 Sent to Park View Sanitarium........................................... 40 Sent to Georgia Infirmary..................................................... 22 Office visits....................................................................... 697 House visits............................................................................. 2256 Total number of visits................................................... 2953 White patients treateA_.........._............................................. 1169 Colored patients treated........................................................ 478 Total number of patients treated................................. 1647 Policemen treated.................................................................... 68 Firemen treated............................................ ,..... 50 I would call attention to the fact that the remuneration received by the City Physician for the Southern District for the year was at an average of a fraction over twenty-five cents per visit. The territory is large, extending from Jones street south to the city limits, both east and west. To make MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 267 these calls requires an automobile and the expense is heavy, thereby netting a much smaller fee than twenty-five cents. Another matter which I would bring to your attention is the numbering of houses and lanes; the numbers are those which first comes to the mind of the occupants of these houses and are written on the doors in chalk, without any regard to uniformity; for instance: "33" Jones street lane, east, is between Price and East Broad streets. When that number is given it immediately makes the physician think of the lane between Bull and Drayton. This matter was referred to by Dr. Lawrence Lee in his report for 1908. I would also call your attention to the drainage west of the city and east of the Waterworks. During very rainy weather the water stands in great pools along both sides of Gwinnett street and causes numerous cases of malaria in the thickly populated West Side. I have endeavored to conduct my office in an irreproachable manner, and trust that my stewardship has been satisfactory. Very truly, R. V. HARRIS, M. D. City Physician, Southern District. Western District SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1911. HON. GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, SIR:I herewith respectfully submit my report as City Physician of the Western District for the year ending December 31, 1910. 268 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT MONTH January. ...-.--.-..-. April. --.._.-------.--- Mav.. ................. July................... September. ............ October. ....... -.--.... Total. ............. of Number patientsreated 240 266 271 360 310 241 339 290 308 341 ''99 286 3551 8 E o "8 s H*z 111 104 107 154 119 92 1 *xd 117 120 112 95 105 1390 of Number house visits 242 172 171 217 195 157 198 185 206 243 223 197 2406 Numbe'r patients toGeorgia sent Infirmary 12 4 11 8 6 17 10 13 13 10 14 126 patients Number Charity sent to Hospital 1 1 3 > o 4 1 o 4 o 8 30 Very respectfully, P. E. LOVE, M. D. Citv Physician, Western District. Northern District SAVANNAH, GA., January 14, 1911. Hox. GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, Savannah, Ga., DEAR SIR :I have the honor to submit herewith this, my annual report, as City Physician of the Northern District for the year ending December 31, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 269 MONTHS February. .......................... March __ .......................... May................................ July........ ........................ August. -.---..---.-.-..-..-..-.--.. September........... ............... Total __ -....---....-..--.-.-- 2 "S^ i Sent to- |'| H > SB J5 K March..'...-................ 11 April....................... 7 May-.-...--..-..-..-.....-- 5 June. -_...-...--..-..-..... 9 July........................ 8 September. --...-..--...... 14 October ___ -.-......-....- 11 December- _ ..-...--...... 4 Total................... 108 Patients 258 210 237 20S 279 267 296 295 344 290 266 280 3231 * m , +j 02 9 5 8 10 8 15 15 14 4 108 . * { : f 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 17 o > I 14 14 fi _> 5> g3 3 5fi TO=A 35 36 ,iQ 82 51 5? 64 OA 5 8? ti8-j 0^ 3 ? 3 ,> 4 1 10> 38 >, S ^ .a ]w o o o 192 152 174 158 224 210 210 218 240 186 183 190 2341 >J T& a o s* 2 1 1 1 2 3 10 Respectfully submitted, B. HARRISON GIBSON, City Physician, Northern District. 270 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT i! Eastern District SAVANNAH, GA., January 27, 1911. Hox. GEO. W. TIEDEMAX, Mayor, SIR:I herewith present you my report for services rendered the year 1910, in the Eastern District. MONTH 3 i>'< o o j s> gs COc-S 0*5 *s ^ rt S April. .................. Mav. --.---..-.-----.-.- July.................... September. -.-.-........ October................. Total.-.--.. ...... -. 256 252 OOQ 224 219 211 214 904. 97fi 205 175 153 2688 255 215 259 195 215 183 154 182 191 159 167 164 2339 428 400 AOO 371 387 358 328 370 421 325 313 270 4483 11 1 5 4 6 7 6 7 6 5 5 3 64 5 2 3 3 9 f> 5 4 4 2 3 4 39 Respectfully submitted, C. B. TYSON, City Physician, Eastern District. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 271 REPORT OF CITY DISPENSARY SAVANNAH, GA., January 2, 1911. HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, City, DEAR SIR:I have the honor to submit herewith my report for the year ending December 31, 1910. Number of prescriptions filled as follows: White Col'd Total January.... February.. March........ April............ May.............. June............ July.............. August........ September.. October....... November.. December... 696 639 701 584 657 457 610 541 646 598 594 708 1,338 1,093 1,245 1,232 1,251 1,218 1,149 1.263 1.264 1.136 1.137 1,043 2,034 1,732 1,946 1,816 1,908 1,675 1,759 1,804 1,910 1,734 1,731 1,751 Totals. 7,431 14,369 21,800 Besides supplies for the various charitable institutions, city physicians, police barracks and pest house. 272 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT EXPENDITURES January Rent..._......... ..................................................................$ 40.00 Wages................................................................................... 160.00 Solomons Company............ ............................................... 73.32 Gas..._.............. ............ ........... ........................................... . 5.75 Harm's Grocery........... ........................................................ 8.75 Ice....................................... .......................................... .70 Taggart & Co.................................................................. 7.00 Wood........... ...................................................................... 1.35 Morning News.................................................................. 8.00 Scrubbing............. .............................................................. 2.30 Telephone......... ................................. .. .............................. 3.00 Train & Merkle...... .................. ........ ................................. 16.50 Braid & Hutton...................................... ............................. 2.50 Total.......................................................................... .$329.17 February i 1 Rent._.................................................................. ................$ 40.00 : Wages................................................................................ 160.00 . Columbia Drug Co............................................................... 142.36 i Gas...__...................... ................................................. 6.25 ! ( Harm's Grocery.............................................................. 8.90 Ice._.............................................................................. .43 Taggart & Co....................... ........... ............................. 7.00 Wood-..-...........-.-..........t............................... 4.05 Scrubbing.............................................................................. 2.25 Braid & Hutton............................................................... 3.50 Directory.__........................................................................... 6.00 i Total... .........................................................................$380.74 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 273 March Rent........................................................................................$ 40.00 Wages.-.......-...-.......................................................... 160.00 Solomons Company............................................................ 148.56 Gas_.................-........................................................... 5.50 Harm's Grocery................................................................... 8.58 Ice................................................................................. 1.20 Wood................................................................................ 1.35 Scrubbing............................................................................. 2.75 W. N. Nichols...................................................................... 7.50 Laundry................................................................................ .35 Telephone..............-.....-.. .......................... 3.00 TotaL............................ ..............-..-.......$378.79 April Rent..............................--........................................$ 40.00 Wages............................-.............--.................... 160.00 Columbia Drug Co............................................................... 119.62 Gas..._................-...-...-......--...........-....-....-......... 5.85 Harm's Grocery............:....................................................... 4.45 Ice........................................................................................ 1.20 Scrubbing............................................................................ 2.00 Laundry................................................................................ .27 TotaL-...-...-.-....-...............................$333.39 May Rent................................................................$ 40.00 Wages................................................................................ 160.00 Solomons Company._............... 152.90 Gas...-.......--................................................... 3.75 Harm's Grocery.__.......................................................... 4.70 Ice...................................................... 2.37 Scrubbing.............................................................. 2.50 274 MAYOR'S ANN'UAL REPORT Laundry. ... ... ............................................................... .81 Total.......................................................... .......... . ....$367.03 June Rent......................................................................................$ 40.00 Wages.................................................................................. 160.00 Columbia Drag Co........................................................... 105.73 Gas..................... .............................. ................................. 3.75 Ice....................................... ................................................. 1.05 Morrison-Sullivan................................. .............................. 1.25 Scrubbing and moving...................'..................................... 6.00 Eckstein's.............................................................................. 1.20 M. S. & D. A. Bvck.................................... ......................... 10.00 Total.. .. ....................................................................$328.98 July Rent..................................................................................$ 40.00 Wages................................................................................. 160.00 Solomons Company............ ................................................ 102.75 Gas..................................... .............................................. 7.45 Harm's Grocerv................................................................... 9.54 Ice......................................................................................:... 3.70 Scrubbing................ ........................................................... 2.00 J. H. Cook.......... ............................................................. 35.00 Haverty's................................................................................ 1.25 W. N. Nichols..................................................................... .75 Chris P. Murphy....... ....................................................... 12.00 Laundry............................................................................... .70 Telephone .......................................... ..... ........ ........ 3.00 Total.... ................................. .......................... ..........$378.14 August Rent. ............................. .................................................$ 40.00 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 275 Wages................................................................................... 160.00 Columbia Drug Co............................................................... 104.14 Gas.......................................................................................... 3.75 Harms' Grocery.......................................................... ......... 4.45 Ice......................................................................................... 3.00 Scrubbing............................................................................. 2.75 Lang Plumbing Co............................................................... 1.75 Electricity............................................................................... 1.00 Total..............................................................................$320.84 September Rent........................................................................................$ 40.00 Wages.................................................................................. 160.00 Solomons Company.............................................................. 146.20 Gas...................................................................................... 3.00 Harms' Grocery.................................................................... 5.75 Ice.......................................................................................... 2.57 Scrubbing.............................................................................. 2.25 Telephone............................................................................. 3.00 J. H. Cook.......................................................................... 16.02 Neal-Blun Co................................-............................... .. 28.75 W. N. Niehols............................................................... 15.00 Laundry....................................................... ...................... .35 Electricity.............................................................................. .80 Train & Merkle.................................................................... 13.00 Total..............................................................................$436.69 October Rent............................................... ........................................^ 40.00 Wages............................................................................. 160.00 Columbia Drug Co...........................:................................... 118.92 Gas................................................................................... 4.00 Harms' Grocery.................................................................... 5.15 Ice..................................................................................... 2.25 276 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT Scrubbing...................................................... ................ 3.35 Laundry.......................... ..................................................... .35 Lewis Manufacturing Co................... ............. ............. 38.95 Electricity........................... ............................................... . 1.25 TotaL.................. ........ .............. ...... .... .... . ....$374.22 November Rent.................................. .... ... .......... .................$ 40.00 Wages..................................................... ......................... 160.00 Solomons Company................... .... .................................... 123.06 Gas..._............................... ............... ............................... . 6.00 Harms* Grocery.......... ....................... ................................ 8.30 Scrubbing._................................................. ......................... 2.75 Ice............................................ .............. ...... ............. ... 1.12 Laundry.................... ....................... ...... ......... .............. .35 Braid & Hutton._................................ .......... ................. 3.50 Electricity............................................ ............... ................ 1.80 Total ............................... ....................... ... .............$346.88 December Rent.................................................... .............. . ... .. ..$ 40.00 Wages..................................... ..................................... 160.00 Columbia Drug Co......................................... ............... ..... 120.74 Gas.___........................................................................... . 6.00 Harms' Grocery._.._.................................................. ... . 7.95 Scrubbing.................................................................. . 2.36 Ice._......................................... .......................... 1.05 Electricity....-............................. .............................. 2.15 Telephone.... ..................................................................... 3.00 Laundry................................................................................ .30 Lang Plumbing Co...._......................................................... 1.50 Taggart & Co....................................................................... 7.00 Total................................................ ............. .........$354.55 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 277 Summary January........................................................ .................$ 329.17 February.......................................................... ....... ... ..... 380.74 March.................................... .............................. .... 378.79 April.......................................... ....................................... 333.39 May.................................................................................. 367.03 June...... ...................................................................... 328.98 July................................ .................................................. 378.14 August............................................. ... ............. .............. 320.84 September........................................ ... ........... ................. 436.69 October................................... ........................... ......... 374.22 November........................................................ ... ....... ..... 346.88 December............................................ .................. ........ 354.55 Total.............................................................. .............$4,329.42 Very respectfully, F. B. DURHAM, Keeper City Dispensary. 278 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING SAVANNAH, GA., January 2, 1911. HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, City of Savannah. SIR :Herewith I have the honor to submit my report for the year ending December 31, 1910. Plumbing Inspections Made During Year 1910 Month Fixtures Amount of Fees January........................................ 117 $ 58.50 February.................................. 101 50.50 March............................................ 97 48.50 ApriL.............................................. 121 60.50 May.................................................. 97 . 48.50 June................. ............................. 185 92.50 July................................................. 119 59.50 August............................................ 168 84.00 September..................................... 85 42.50 October............................................ 113 56.50 November.... .............................. 49 24.50 December.................. .................... 55 27.50 TotaL....................................... 1307 $653.50 As against the fees of 1909 there was an increase of $9.00 for the year just ended. Besides the said regular inspections I also made 105 inspections of plumbing and sewers on the recommendation of the Health Officer, and inspected 228 sewers connected to the house-drainage system. For such inspections the city re- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 279 ceives no fee. On complaints of citizens numerous inspections were made, for which there is no charge. I wish to thank your Honor and the Committee on Public Health for help and advice given during the past year. Very respectfully, A. ROBIDER, Inspector of Plumbing. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910 P. D. DAFFIN CHAIRMAN 282 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT PARK AND TREE COMMISSION PHILIP D. DAFFIX........................ Term expires January 1, 1912 ISAIAH A. SOLOMONS........ ........ Term expires January 1, 1912 S. E. THEUS._..__........... ............. Term expires January 1, 1914 T. H. McMiLLAN.......................... Term expires January 1, 1914 CHARLES S. ELLIS.............. ........ Term expires January 1, 1916 Chairman PHILIP D. BAFFIN* Vice-Chairman CHARLES S. ELLIS Secretary ISAIAH A. SOLOMONS Superintendent WILLIAM H. ROBERTSON Foreman JAMES B. WISE Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery (white portion) A. B. LAR.OCHE Keeper Bonaventure Cemetery (white) J. T. McCoRMiCK Keeper Laurel Grove Cemetery (colored portion) HENRY WILLIS MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 283 REPORT OF THE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION FOR THE YEAR 1910 SAVANNAH, GA., January 1, 1911. HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, City. SIR:In accordance with Section 6 of an Act of the Legislature of the State of Georgia, approved November 30, 1895, to create and organize a .Park and Tree Commission for the City of Savannah, the Commissioners have the honor to submit this report of their doings for the past year: Our Public Grounds Forsyth Park................................................. ..................... 10. Forsyth Extension.................................................................. 21. Colonial Park_................................................................... 6.6 Twenty-five squares.............................................................. 21.8 Oglethorpe Green_............................................................... 3.44 Liberty Street Green.............................................................. 2.18 Dasher Park......................................................................... .2 Thomas Park........................................................................ 2. Well's Square......................................................................... 1.4 Emmet Park............_........................................................... 4.75 Myer'sPark........................................................................... 1.56 Cann Park........................................................................... 2.18 Dixon Park_....................................................._............ 1.29 Grayson Park...................................................................... 1.75 Damn Park.............................-.............................-... 80.40 Park in Dixon Ward (not named)...................................... 2.17 Park in Grayson Ward (not named)............................ 2.78 Park in Watson Ward (not named).................................... 1.29 Tiedeman Park..................................................................... 2.75 284 , MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT McCauley Park..................................... .............. .. . . 1.2 Solomons Park............. ................. .... ....... .. ........ 1.2 Theus Park................................................ . . ........ . 1.2 Baldwin Park........ ..... .............. ........ ... .. 1.2 Guckenheimer Park...... :.........._,... .. . .... . . 1.2 Entelman Park ................. .................... . ... .. . .... . 1. Kavanaugh Park... .... ... . ... .... .. ... ....... ...... 1. Lattimore Park.............................. . .... ... ...... 1. Vetsburg Park.................. ......... ...... ........ .. ......... 1. Gaudry Park................ ...... . ... ..... .. . ..... .. . 1. Adams Park.............. .. . .. ...... ........... 1. Total.... ... ........ ... ....... . . ... .....181.54 Total area of parks and squares....... ... . . .. .181.54 Laurel Grove Cemetery (white, 57.1: colored, (KJ.8)... .117.9 Bonaventure Cemetery......... .......... ................ ...... ..... .... 99.69 Total area of public grounds..... . ....... .... .... 399.13 FINANCIAL STATEMENT Parks and Squares There was appropriated...... .... ........................ ........ $12,000.00 There was expended............. . ... ... ....... ... . ....... 12,344.14 Appropriation overdrawn...... ... .. ... ... . ........ $ 344.14 Parks and Squares (Tree Planting) There was appropriated...................... ..................... $ 2,000.00 There was expended............ .... ............... ........ 2,000.45 Appropriation overdrawn.................................. $ .45 I -ni ' * Parks and Squares (Special Appropriation, Bay Street Strand) MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 285 There was appropriated............. ................................ $ 048.70 There was expended................................................... 348.70 Balance unexpended.. ................................... .... $ 300.00 Parks and Squares (Special Appropriation, Grass Plats, East and West Broad Streets) There was appropriated..................... .. . .... .... .... $ 1,000.00 There was expended..................................... ............ 1,000.00 Parks and Squares (Special Appropriation, Planting Palmetto Trees, Estill Avenue) There was appropriated.............. .............................. $ 1,907.53 There was expended.................................... ............... 1,907.53 Parks and Squares (Special Appropriation, for Purchase of Extra Mule) There was appropriated............................................... $ 300.00 There was expended........................................ ......... 300.00 Daffin Park There was appropriated.....................................!.......... $ 2,000.00 There was expended.................................... ............ 2,000.05 Appropriation overdrawn... ............................... $ .05 Bonaventure Cemetery There was appropriated................................ ........... $ 5,000.00 There was expended................................................... 6,797.81 Appropriation overdrawn.................................... $ 1,797.81 286 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Bonaventure Cemetery (Special Appropriation, Improvements) There was appropriated..........................................-.:.. $10,000.00 There was expended_................................................. 12,757.70 Appropriation overdrawn............................ . $ 2,757.70 Bonaventure Cemetery (Special Appropriation, New Water System) There was appropriated............................................... $ 1,500.00 There was expended_................................................. 1,500.85 Appropriation overdrawn.-. .. ........................ $ .85 Bonaventure Cemetery (Special Appropriation, Construction Training Wall) There was appropriated............................................. $ 1,986.00 There was expended................................................... 1,986.00 Bonaventure Cemetery Receipts Received from sale of lots.__....................................... $ 2,250.77 .Received from burial fees._......................................... 503.00 Received from care of lots, water rents and miscellaneous work....................................................... 3,688.15 Total paid to City Treasurer............................... $ 6,441.92 Laurel Grove Cemetery There was appropriated.............................................. $ 5,000.00 There was expended....................................... ......... 5,994.58 Appropriation overdrawn.-.. ......................... $ 994.58 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 287 Laurel Grove Cemetery Receipts Received from sale of lots, white................................ $ 1,161.20 Received from burial fees, white............................... 1,711.00 Received from sale of lots, colored.. ........................ 506.00 Total paid to City Treasurer............................... $ 3,378.20 Baffin Park, Rent Fund Cash balance on hand January 1, 1910................ ..... $ 140.28 Received from rents and other sources..................... 275.50 Cash balance on hand January 1, 1911..............-. $ 415.78 Bonaventure Cemetery The work of gravelling the avenues was continued and we now have the following avenues gravelled and in good order, viz: Live Oak, Magnolia, Tattnall, Palmetto, Camellia, Cherokee, Azalea and Oleander, comprising 15,670 lineal feet, upward of 3 miles of roadways in fine condition. This work has been done at a cost of $8,418.70, the regular force of the cemetery having assisted in the labor. There are several avenues still to be gravelled, which should be done as soon as possible. We have laid concrete walks three feet wide from the entrance down Live Oak avenue to the River front; also on Palmetto avenue to Tattnall, thence to the Riverin all 4430 feet, at a cost of $1,701.32. Other walks should be laid, especially in the Hebrew section at least from the entrance to the River front, as there are no hard walks in that section. 288 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT We have purchased and installed new waterworks, the old tank, engine, pipes, etc., having been worn out or inadequate for the present needs. After advertising for bids, the Commission awarded the contract for a 50,000 gallon Hemispherical Steel Tank and Tower, 105 feet 6 inches high, for $2,540.00 to J. S. Schofield's Sons Co., Macon, Ga. The foundation piers of concrete eight feet deep and eight feet square, were laid at a cost of $425.00. New 6-inch mains, with valves and fittings, cost $1,100.71. Bids for Triplex Pump, motor driven, capacity 200 to 250 gallons per minute, were called for and contract awarded to Rumsey & Company, Seneca Falls, N. Y., for $1,000.00, f. o. b. factor}'. The pump and motor were installed by the Superintendent of the Park and Tree Commission, with the regular labor of the cemetery without other cost. Besides this there was expended for foundations for enlarged pump house and engine, retaining wall and other necessary items, $378.73, making the total cost of the whole improvement $4,444.44. This leaves on hand about $350.00 worth of pipes and fittings already paid for, to be applied to necessary work as needed. Power used is supplied by the Savannah Electric Company under the city contract. We have planted during the year the following trees: Live Oak 69, Magnolia 49 and Palmetto 25; have also expended $432.00 for Italian rye grass seed, which has been used in planting private lots and for grass plats in the various avenues and circles. We have placed sign boards throughout the cemetery I indicating the names of avenues. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 28!) We are attending to 'about 300 private lots, the number fluctuating as new lots are taken on and others left off. Keeper B. C. Thorpe died October 16th, 1910, after an illness that extended through most of the year previous. Until his sickness he was a faithful and efficient employee and had the regard and confidence of all. The vacancy has been filled by the City Council in the appointment of Mr. J. T. McCormick. A new stable has been erected for the mules and wagons, keeper's house repaired, necessary tools purchased and other details attended to. Forsyth Park and Bull Street Squares We have carried on the regular work in this park and these squares the past year, and have made improvements in the way of new benches, resurfacing of the walks which were badly worn, have painted both the display and drinking fountains, and they present a beautiful appearance. We also planted Italian rye grass and the results obtained were very satisfactory, making the lawns beautiful and green throughout the winter months. Our stock of plants has been built up and we had on hand in our greenhouses on December 31st, 1910, the following: Croton.............................. ............... ........... ..................... 1,000 Dracaenas.......... ............................... ............ .. ........... . 800 Latania Borbonica................. .. ............... .............. ........... . 50 Phoenix Robeline ........................................... ......... . 50 Small Palms..................... ................ ... .. ...... ...... ......... 75 Pandanus Sanderii............................................ ........ ....... . 175 Hybiscus............................................................... .......... ..... 650 Acalypha....................................................... ... ..................... 950 10 290 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Sancevia................................................................................... 350 Plectogina.............................................................................. 50 Strobolanthus, variegated...... .............. ...... ..................... 200 Strobolanthus, purple.......... ................................................ 200 Phylodendron.......................................... .............................. 250 Dieffenbachia......................................................................... 50 Phylanthus........... ............................................................ 150 Abutilon.... .................................. ................................... ..... 300 Plumbago......... ...................................................................... 300 Clerodendron.......................................................................... 225 Ficus Elastica.................................... ................................. 25 Poinsettia...... ................................... ................................... 100 Euvanimus...... ................................... ............................... 150 Geranium.......... . ... ............................. ........ .......... .......... 75 Alternanthera........................ . ............................................ . 3,550 Cactus.............. .................................................................... 75 Begonias............. ........... .......................... ......................... 200 Ferns........................................ ............................................ 50 Coleus, eight colors................................................................ 3,750 Salvia Splendeas..............................."........ .................. ......... 600 Asparagus Sprengerii......................................................... 250 Amaryllis.......................................... .................................... 50 Arabian Jessamine................................................................. 100 Acheranthuta........ .............................................................. 175 Miscellaneous plants........................ .................. ................ 750 Total number of plants in Park greenhouse._.........15,725 Our greenhouses on Barnard street are in a most dilapidated condition and we sincerely trust that Council will make a special appropriation for the rebuilding of the same. We again respectfully call Council's attention to the need of artificial stone walks in Forsyth Park. Wells Square, Thomas Place and Dasher Park Wells Square has received only the usual attention the MAYOR'S ANN UAL REPORT 291 past year; no new improvements having been made, but the necessity for artificial stone walks in this park is still very apparent. Thomas Place has had some improvement made in the way of Crepe Myrtle hedges and Cherokee rose beds. The fountain from Chippewa Square has been placed in this park and certainly adds greatly to its attractiveness. Dasher Park has been looked after as usual; no new improvements were made during the year. Squares East and West of Bull Street and North of Gaston Street These squares were given as much attention as possible with the appropriation at our disposal, and were planted in Italian rye grass, and it being a rainy season the stand was excellent and the squares showed up beautiful and green. The Strand We have completed the filling in and grassing of the new grass plats, but were not able to plant any ornamental trees or shrubs, owing to the lack of funds. We continued the planting of the Amoor River Privit hedge and it has made much progress, and before long will hide the unsightly rails along the slips. Myers and Cann Parks Beyond planting trees in these parks, no new work has been done. Grayson and Dixon Parks Grayson Park has received the usual caretrees planted, benches repaired and painted. 292 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Dixon Park is badly in need of filling in and we hope that we will be able to arrange to purchase the dirt that is to be removed from the excavation for the Henry street subway for this purpose. Grass Plats We have not nearly completed the filling in of the grass plats, but hope that Council will assist us in this work by making the necessary appropriation to cover the cost of such work. The grass plats on East and West Broad streets were filled in with the $1,000.00 allowed and there is absolutely no comparison between what the street was and is, since the work has been completed. Trees We are still pushing the work of tree planting and are accomplishing a great deal each year, but find that trees suitable for street planting are becoming very scarce. We planted during the year 1,772 trees, and the following will show the number and variety of each: Palmetto......................!.......................................... ................ 475 Live Oak...................................................................... .... 409 Sugarberry.............................................................................. 368 Sweet Gum .......................................................................... 321 Magnolia....... ................................................................... 79 Dogwood.^............................................................................... 55 Yaupon.__............................................................................... 25 Crepe Myrtle............................................................................ 24 Crab Apple.......................................................'....................... 9 Wild Olive. ... _................................................................. 5 Sycamore................................................................................ 1 Water Oak.............................................................................. 1 Total......................--...-.................... 1,772 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 293 Trimming Trees This branch of our work has been given very careful attention and we believe that the trees are beginning to show the results of our work. Spraying of Trees We are devoting much of our time to the spraying of trees and feel that much is being accomplished in the way of controlling various scale and insects. Removal of Trees During the year we removed 142 trees and the following will show the variety and number of each: Sycamore......... ........ ...... .................................................... 65 Water Oak............ .......... .................................. ................ 34 Chinaberry............. .............. .............................. . . ........ ..... 15 Mulberry....... .... .. ... ............................... .......... ...................... 9 Elm........"...................................... ............... ................................. 7 Ash............... ....... ...... ..... .. ................................ ................. 2 ........... ................. .................................................. 2 _..............:.... ....... ...................................... .. .............. 2 Sweet Gum............... ........................................... ................. 1 Sugarberry......................... ........ ................................................. 1 Sea Myrtle................... ..... .......... .... ... ................. .............. 1 Locust................ ....... ..... ... .. ............................... ............. 1 Dogwood....... ... ................................... .............. .... ...... ......... 1 Maple................. ................ ................... ....... ...................... ..... 1 Total............ ......... ... ... ... ..... .. ...... ..... .... .142 Tree Nursery Owing to the fact that Council no longer allowed the appropriation for the care and maintenance of the Tree Nur- 294 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT ! sery, the same has been forfeited to the county in accordance j with contract which was drawn up between the Chatham County Commissioners and the City of Savannah. Emmet Park The regular routine work has been carried on in this park as usual. Parks in Granger Tract The parks in this tract have been improved and planted at the expense of the Chatham Land & Hotel Company, the plans for their improvement having been approved by this Commission. In connection with these parks we beg to respectfully suggest that they be curbed as soon as possible. Parks in Lattimore Tract Plans for the improvement and beautification of these parks were submitted to the Park and Tree Commission by the Ardsley Park Land Corporation and were approved, the work being executed by the P. J. Berckmans Co., Augusta, Ga., at the expense of the Ardsley Park Land Corporation. Colonial Park This park has had the care of one man steady, that being all that we could spare from our regular force, but we have had much special work done there from time to time. Damn Park We beg to advise that the Chatham County Commissioners very kindly graded the four approaches to Daffin Park and we feel that the City of Savannah is greatly indebted MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 295 to them for the work that they have done, and they are entitled to our sincerest thanks and appreciation. We have filled considerably of the low portion of the park lying adjacent to Waiters' road and trust that Council will allow sufficient appropriation to complete this work. The four adproaches Mhich were recently graded, have been planted in Live Oak trees in accordance with the plan of the landscape gardner. We sincerely hope that Council will see its way clear to appropriate more money for the improvement of this park, as we are unable to accomplish much with the little money allowed. Miscellaneous We delivered during the year thirty-one wagon loads of wood to the various charitable institutions and the worthy poor. We purchased a new mule for the use of our department at a cost of $300.00. Special I beg to again respectfully call your attention to the absolute need of an automobile runabout for the use of this department; this need being occasioned by the increased territory that we have to cover, with the two cemeteriesBonaventure four miles from the City Hall and Laurel Grove Cemetery at the western end of the city, to say nothing of the immense territory to be covered in the city proper and the constant attention that all of this territory requires, therefore making it necessary for both the Superintendent and the Chairman of this Commission to lose much time in the accomplishment of this superintending; and as all of the physical 206 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT i work, both clerical and superintending is done by one man, you can readily see that it often leaves the office without any one in it for a longer space of time than it would if we had better facilities for covering our territory. I therefore earnestly ask that this matter be given your careful consideration. We planted Estill and Atlantic avenues with 460 Palmetto trees at a cost of $1,907.53, and we expect to have marked success with them. The avenue presents a very beautiful appearance and in a very short while the trees will put out new fans and in appearance will be enhanced greatly. Laurel Grove Cemetery, White Portion * The usual routine work has been carried on in this cemetery, but many needed improvements were not made owing to the lack of the necessary money with which to make them. I shall quote from my report of 1909, as follows: "The Commission desires to call your attention to the fact that the bond of $300.00, which the city accepted in trust for the perpetual care of the Mary E. Williams lot in Laurel Grove Cemetery, expired in February, 1909, and no provision has been made as yet by Council for the reinvestment of this money, so the Commission are, therefore, taking care of the said lot temporarily until some provision is made, which we trust Council will do at once. This money should be invested, and the revenue from such investment being devoted to the care of the said lot." In regard to the above beg to advise that this bond has never been renewed and therefore, no revenue is being received from it; this is respectfully submitted for your information and consideration. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 297 Laurel Grove Cemetery, Colored Portion The cemetery has been kept in very satisfactory condition the past year, the keeper taking especial interest in his work. Again we call the attention of Council to the pressing need of more ground for burial purposes and respectfully urge that a committee be appointed to look into this matter at an early date, as the conditions existing there are deplorable. I attach to this report the mortuary statistics' of the keepers of the cemeteries. Yours respectfully, P. D. DAFFIN, Chairman. 10-A 298 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Mortuary Report of Laurel Grove Cemetery for 1910 Interments February.... March....... May......... June ____ .. July......... August _ ... September ... October __ , November December- ... WHITE >. 3 cfl .e * i a. ** ' +* a Jo' go' ,5 o 5 ; 1! 27 3 13 1 17 7 18 : 5 21 4 25 3 18 i 2 19 3 28 2 18 ; 4 24 3 27 255 5 42 O , 5 H f 7 ! 37 5 19 8 i 32 9 32 6 ! 31 6 34 3 23 7 : 29 2 32 6 28 5 i 32 4 36 68 365 COLORED >, 3 _c (A *> !8 Q 8 PL. 03 .ts f 1 Cfl 70 12 51 8 56 ; 4 * es c HH |^ V O 8 9 7 56 : 14 10 70 12 ' 4 75 70 54 62 58 75 85 782 13 7 23 22 10 10 fi 4 5 90 68 67 sn 86 95 98 80 7 79 11 16 9 5 12 149 93 79 100 102 1024 c ' in to P pts Jl .-.e So OPQ 127 87 QQ 112 117 1 9Q 1 91 109 111 107 132 138 1389 Interments during year (white)._....................................... 365 Interments during year (colored)............................................1024 Total number of interments....... ................................ ..1389 Free burials._......................................................................... 47 Removals in cemetery._......................................................... 8 To Bonaventure Cemetery..................................................... 10 To Williamsport, Pa....__........................................................ 1 Removals in colored cemetery.___.......................................... 2 Respectfully, A. B. LAROCHE, Keeper. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Mortuary Report of Bonaventure Cemetery, White January 1, 1910, to January 1, 1911 March _ ........................... April. . --.--.--.-........_..._ May... . ............................ June ........................... July ............................. August --.-.-.---.............. September.. .-____-.-.-.-.-____._._. October... .......................... * Grand Total _ .... _ ..-. _ . ._ O _ 01 IS, 6 17 on January 31 17 on February 28 20 on March 31 1! on April 30 18 on May 31 21 on June 30 21 on July 31 17 on August 31 23 on September 30 18 on October 31 m 5. & 6!>7 540 61!) 505 620 670 TKO 626 88 7 fid, 674 561 7762 e ? , < 15 11 1-2 16 18 1-3 10 20 1-2 17 14 1-2 13 3-5 10 1-4 13 17 1-2 15 3-4 City Cents ,35 5-fi .45 2-5 .40 1-3 .42 .40 2-6 Oft ,1 K .33 1-7 .35) 5-6 .36 2-6 .35 3-7 .37 .44 3-5 .3!) County Cents .23 fl-6 .30 1-5 .26 2-3 .28 .26 5-6 .24 2-3 .22 t-7 .26 1-2 .24 1-6 .23 4-7 9.1 9 ^ .2!) 3-5 .25 5-6 Combined Cents .50 2-3 .75 3-5 .67 .70 .67 1-6 .61 2-3 .55 2-7 .66 1-3 .60 1-2 .59 .61 2-3 .74 1-5 .64 5-6 O 93 V) S 3 S MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 313 REPORT OF CHARITY HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GA., February 10, 1911. HON. GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor. SIR:I submit herewith the report of Charity Hospital for the year ending December 31, 1910. MONTH January. ... ................... ......... February. .... ...................... March..... ................. ...... April... . ................. ... ......... May..--. ... ......................... July..... ......................... .. August. .............................. October......... .................. Total __ ....----.---.--....-.-.- Charity Patients. 6 z 17 11 15 15 19 24 21 II 20 23 24 231 8-s ffi o 6~a &+* 274 145 144 170 248 230 223 206 246 257 197 298 2638 Pay Patients. b Z 23 23 30 28 23 36 34 40 50 41 35 21 384 * % o'"3 z~ 232 209 285 253 180 259 198 250 416 445 299 212 322S Number of patients in hospital January 1, 1910....:........ 14 Number of patients admitted during year, 1910................ 001 Number patients discharged during year, 1910................. 529 Number patients died during year, 1910.......................... 72 Of the 72 deaths 30 were moribund. Of the 72 deaths 8 were stillborn. Number of patients remaining in .hospital January 1, 1911.................................................................... ............. 14 314 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Number of births..... .... ........... ............................................ 14 Total number charity patients............................. ...... ........ 231 Total number charity patients, hospital days...... ...... ..... 2638 Total number pay patients............................................ 384 Total number pay patients, hospital days.......................... 3228 Total number all patients...................................................... 615 Total number all patients, hospital days............... ............ 5866 Total expenditures for the year.-............................. $3,672.99 Average cost of patients, per diem........................... .6261 Average cost of charity patient, per diem to city.... .3412 Receipts Appropriation from city..................-........ $ 900.00 From employment of our nurses.............. 270.87 From pay patients...................... .............. 2,430.84 From donations.___............................... 61.89 Total.................................... .... ............ $3,668.60 Expenditures Salaries.__............................................... $ 704.75 Groceries, bread and milk .__. ............... 727.71 Meats, vegetables, etc............................... 496.30 House supplies..................................... 125.71 Medical and surgical supplies.-...-........ 534.08 Undertakers........................................ 40.55 Electric lights, coal, wood and oil__..... 287.68 Insurance, telephone and printing._....... 73.98 Repairs and improvements._............... 365.90 Deficit 1910-- ........................ 316.33 TotaL..__................................................... $3,672.99 Deficit January 1, 1911.................................... $ 9.39 Respectfully submitted, E. E. DBS VERNEY, President. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 315 ANNUAL REPORT OF PARK VIEW SANITARIUM. SAVANNAH, JANUARY 31, 1911. HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor. SIR:The directors of the Park View Sanitarium have the honor to submit to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah the annual report for the year ending December, 1910. The care at the Sanitarium includes treatment, lodging, nourishment, medicines, surgical operations, surgical appliances and the care of obstetrical cases. The Sanitarium has received without limitation, all patients sent in by reputable physicians of Savannah, Georgia. Very respectfully, RALSTON LATTIMORE, M. D. Secretary. January.. . ...... February. . . ... March.... . .. . .. April-. .... . . . . . May.. .... . . . June. July- .. August.. ... September . . . November . . December. ..... .......... . Total. __ - ....... . Q3 a: 417 360 270 247 426 406 303 338 305 221 257 102 3022 1 o 30 28 26 16 32 28 35 36 45 27 30 36 369 itt. 12 16 13 8 10 16 22To 24 14 13 14 100 * ^' 18 12 13 8 13 12 13 17 21 13 17 22 179 at t 0 20 0 0 10012107 SQ 1 00 1 3 1113005 HI CAUSE OF DEATH Cardiac Dilatation Pyonephrosis Malaria, syphilis, malmitritim Acute indigestion Typhoid fever Acute colitis Opium poison, cerebral hemorrhage, malarial fever Tuberculosis, meningitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, organic heart disease 50 CO > 7. Z e! w33 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 317 REPORT OF GEORGIA INFIRMARY. Statistical Report Number of patients in Infirmary January 1, 1910.... 32 Number of patients admitted........... ........... ....... 707 Number of patients cared for.......... . .. .. ..... ...... 739 Number of patients discharged.... ............ . ... .... . 572 Number of patients died............. ....... ... ....... . . .. ... . 133 Number of patients remaining January 1, 1911........ 34 Births in Infirmary........................................ .. .. .. .. 9 Total number of deaths................................................. 133 Number of moribund patients carried to Infirmary . 83 Mortality........................... .... ... ... . .. . ...... . ... ..... 18.8% Corrected mortality...... ... .. ... .. ... ... ... .. ...... .. . 8.01% Tubercular admits..... ...... .................. ... . .. . 36 Operations..................... .......... ... ............. ... ...... ... 241 Surgical deaths................. .. ... .. ....... ............. 20 Totalnumber hospital days, all patients. . ............ 15,299 Total number hospital days, charity.... .......... 13,088 Total number hospital days, pay........ ............. ... 2,211 Daily average number of patients.. ...... ... .......... .... 41.91% Daily average cost per patient.............................. 65.39% Smallest number of patients any one day.... ........... 30 Largest number of patients any one day............. ..... 53 Expense for year................................................. .... ....$10,004.03 Appropriation from City of Savannah and Chatham county averages for charity patients per day.................. 01.12c Number of attendants, including white nurses.......... 19 Receipts Balance January 1, 1910.................................... .........$ 538.78 City of Savannah........ ..................... ......................... 4,500.00 Chatham County.............. ... ......................................... 3,500.00 Pay patients............. -.. ........... ............................. 1,658.39 Received from interest on investments...................... 1,115.03 318 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Donations, Savannah Benevolent Association............ 200.00 Donation, Independent Presbyterian Church........... 43.41 Total._............. ................................... ......................$11,555.61 Disbursements Expenses: Salaries........................... ................... .... .....................$ 4,163.24 Provisions.............................. ....... ... ............................. 2,777.21 Drugs and surgical supplies....... ................................. 1,119.73 Repairs, plumbing and painting........ ... . ........... ...... 533.43 Household supplies................ .................. ..................... 697.33 Electric light and gas.__......... . .... .......... ............... . 159.73 Coal and wood......... ...................................... ..... 275.25 Undertaker's account................ .......................... ......... 144.00 Telephone..... ........................... .. ........................ 30.26 Insurance........... ............................................................ 25.84 Interest.......................................... ................................ 78.01 Balance January 1, 1911._................ ... .............$10,004.03 Investment Account: June 21, To add to non-interest bearing fractional certificate for $420.00, Jamison scrip, awarded the Infirmary in liquidating the Georges Creek Coal & Iron Co., by which we now have a $500 bond bearing 5% interest per annum ............. 72.65 Balance January 1, 1911........................................ 1,478.93 Total.................... ................................................$11,555.61 Respectfully submitted, HENRY C. CUNNINGHAM, President Trustees Georgia Infirmary. MARCUS S. BAKER, Secretary and. Treasurer January 31, 1911. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 318a ANNUAL REPORT SAVANNAH HOSPITAL Number of patients in Hospital Dec. 31, 1909-.-.. 45 Number of patients admitted during 1910____ _ 1,271 Number of patients in hospital during 1910-...... 1,316 Number of patients discharged during 1910--..... 1,210 Number of patients remaining Jan. 1, 1911........ 34 Number of Patients died during 1910...-......... 72 Number of patients moribund 1910.............. 27 Number of patients born 1910_....---------..... 43 Number of hospital days (pay patients) 1910...... 8,534 Number of hospital days (city and country) 1910 .. 5,652 Total number of hospital days 1910.............. 14,186 Average daily number of patients 1910........... 38 316-365 Total number of pay patients 1910....---.----.-. 823 Total number of city and country 1910.-.--...-.. 493 Total number of surgical operations 1910......... 532 Mortality, total deaths 1910_.................. 5 6-13 Mortality, less moribund 1910.._.----_--.---.... 2 1-19 Income from pay patients 1910...-.-.-.-.---.. ..$17,183.31 Income from other sources........................ 8,146.62 Total Income............................ .$25,329.93 Increase of income from pay patients, over 1909 ..$ 1,682.02 Decrease of income other sources, 1910 over 1909 ._ 2,781.64 Cost of city and country, per patient-.....--..._$ 8.75 Expense, per capita, per diem.... .----.......__ 1.776-1-} ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910 WILLIAM HARDEN LIBRARIAN MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 321 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SAVANNAH, GA., January 28, 1911. HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor, City of Savannah. SIR:I have the honor to transmit the eighth annual report of the Savannah Public Library in accordance with the agreement existing between the Georgia Historical Society and the City of Savannah. Yours very truly, GEORGE J. BALDWIN, Chairman. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, JANUARY 1, 1911. To THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, AND TO THE GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY GENTLEMEN :It is my duty and pleasure to submit for your information the eighth annual report of the board of Managers of the Savannah Public Library, as is required by agreement between you of March 26, 1903, in accordance with which the Public Library was then founded. Membership of the Board The terms of Mr. H. W. Witcover, appointed by the city, and Mr. H. P. Smart, by the society, having expired on December 31, 1909, both of these gentlemen were reappointed for the five-year term beginning January 1, 1910. 11 322 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT The Mayor has been notified of the expiration of the term of Mr. John M. Thomas on December 31, 1910, and the President of the Society of the expiration of the term of Mr. Geo. J. Baldwin, at the same time. It is with deep regret and sorrow that we record the first death in our Library circle, that of our associate, Dr. R. J. Nunn, who died on June 29, 1910, after having efficiently and continuously served as a member of this Board from the time of his first appointment on May 2, 1903. No one has ever taken greater interest in its work or been more faithful to the great crust placed upon him. An appreciation of him as a member of the Board and as a citizen was prepared by a special committee, recorded upon our minutes and published in the newspapers of the city. Mr. J. Randolph Anderson was appointed by the President of the Georgia Historical Society to fill the unexpired term ending December 31, 1912. The Board at the end of the year, therefore, was as follows: Term Expires December 31, 1910.. December 31, 1911.. December 31, 1912.. December 31, 1913.. December 31, 1914.. Appointed by City of Savannah John M. Thomas ... Neyle Colquitt ___ P. A. Stovall. __ N. B. P. Close...... H. W. Witcover.... Appointed by Georgia Historical Society. Geo. J. Baldwin. J. R. Anderson. T. J. Charlton. H. P. Smart. There now remain upon our Board four of the original ten members appointed eight years ago: Messrs. Otis Ashmore and George J. Baldwin, who were first appointed on May 2, 1903, by the President of the Georgia Historical Society, and Messrs. John M. Thomas and H. W. Witcover who were MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 323 appointed by the Mayor of Savannah three days later, on May 5th, to represent the city. All four of these gentlemen have served continuously since their first appointments. At the February meeting of the Board, the following officials were elected and served during the year: MR. GEORGE J. BALDWIN...... ............ . ............Chairman MR. Cms ASHMORE................. .... ................ Vice-Chairman MR. H. P. SMART................ . ........ .. ...... ........... ......Secretary MR. JOHN M. THOMAS.......... ................... ..............Treasurer Library Committee; Dr. T. J. Charlton, Chairman; Mr. H. W. Witcover and Mr. P. A. Stovall. Finance Committee; Mr. N. B. F. Close, Chairman; Dr. R. J. Nunn and Mr. Neyle Colquitt. Library Officials The present list of salaried officials of the Library is: Mr. William Harden, Librarian; Miss Maude Hey ward, Assistant Librarian; Miss Elizabeth McLaws, Librarian of Children's Department; Miss Selina Heyward, Desk Assistant; together with two apprentices without salary, who were appointed on April 14,Miss Annie Dunwody and Miss Pamela Lucas. John Noisette continues his services as janitor. Early in the year an advance in salaries was allowed by the Board. The compensation received by each of the salaried officials was increased by approximately equal amounts. One new paid assistant was added on account of the increased work required by the opening of the Children's Department. The total increase in salaries was from $2,461.81 paid in 1909, to $3,600 paid in 1910. Even with these advances, these amounts are far below those paid for trained librarians in other cities, and are insuf- 324 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT ficient for the adequate performance of the work required in Savannah. The increasing attendance, the number of books taken out, the additional book repairs and Cataloging needed and the general growth of the work required the services of additional employees, but as the Board had no funds which could be used to employ trained libraians, it was compelled to appoint two unpaid assistants under the title of "apprentices," who are expected to receive some practical knowledge of library work in return for their services. Insurance Ten thousand dollars upon the building and $15,000 upon its contents having been formerly approved by all parties concerned, still remains the amount of insurance in effect. Public Interest and Co-operation Many special bibliographies and bulletins have been issued during the year, much attention has been called to the Library in the newspapers, and the attention and co-operation of the public has been invited by every method known. The many bibliographies of books available to the public which have been compiled and issued as shown by the Librarian's report, all served specially interested classes of our people, as well as the general public. The preparation of a list of domestic science literature illustrates perhaps most clearly how the Library influences a community, and what its relations are to all civic movements. There has recently been aroused the greatest possible interest in reducing the high cost of living. Different phases of this interest are expressed by the establishment of agricultural schools in each congressional district throughout Georgia; the formation of boys' clubs all over the State for the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 325 purpose of studying economic farming, by the establishment of a department of domestic science in the public high school of Savannah, and in the largest private girls' school in the city, to teach the economic selection and preparation of food, by the creation of the model farm in Chatham county for the purpose of showing what products can be raised with the greatest economy and benefit in this neighborhood, by the strong public opinion in favor of the new highway to South Carolina to enable us to secure the products of that State, and by the establishment of packing houses and other foodproducing industries in Savannah. The Public Library, appreciating this trend of public opinion, aided the movement by providing additional books on domestic science and publishing a list of the same for general information. This we believe to be a most useful form of co-operation with the people of Savannah. Our classified list of card-holders furnishes most interesting information concerning the very wide range of individuals and industries benefited by the Library. It is well worth studying. The Library has at all times been willing to make up and publish these lists of books upon special subjects, and in every way to assist in their use. As far as its funds permit, it will purchase any suitable list of books desired. Publicity During the year, sixty-one newspaper notices of our work have appeared in the public prints, a large number of bulletins issued, and as a method of publicity a printed copy of the proposed budget for 1911, which was sent to the city, was distributed by having a copy placed in each book taken out during the latter part of December. At the bottom of this letter was put the request: "To the Readers of Public Library Books: The above is the request of the Board for the 1911 appropriation. If you want your Library properly operated 326 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT next year, take the trouble to go and tell your alderman what you want. He will vote for it if you ask it." Children's Department Under the rules establishing the Children's Department,, all children under sixteen years of age take their books from it, although any child may, by special request, obtain from the adult's department such literature as may be suitable. It is a pleasure to announce that this new department was opened for general inspection and registration on February 22, and for the delivery of books to children on the 24th of the same month. It has aroused the greatest interest, not only in the children themselves, but in the older people. This was shown by the considerable attendance at the opening reception, and the very large increase of books taken out during the year. Our main library reading room is inadequate and unsuited for the various uses to which it must be put, its facilities are behind the requirements of modern library work, and its appearance is unattractive and not stimulating, particularly so to children. It seemed necessary that they at least should be adequately and properly provided for in the new room; hence in all of the changes of the building and the added equipment the Board has had in mind perfection of service and environment. The completed room is charming in its mental effect, adequately lighted both by day and by night, the furnishing is of the most modern and approved type, the decoration simple and effective, the list of new books purchased such as are most thoroughly approved by the best authorities, and in general the entire design and its carrying out have been in accordance with the best modern library practice. It is a credit to our city. We trust that a comparison between the facilities offered to the children and the surroundings in that MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 327 department will stimulate the adult users of the Library to demand from the city the similar conveniences for them which they should have. Believing that the use of the Library should be supplemented by teaching the children how to obtain the greatest benefit therefrom, and realizing the value of creating in their minds ideals to live up to, it was decided to utilize the telling of stories for this purpose. With this in view, the children were divided into two classesthose from, eight to eleven years, and those from twelve to fifteen years, inclusive. The stories have been told by different volunteers and members of the Library staff as stated in the Librarian's report. It is easy to see how a series of talks of this character would serve to stimulate the ideals of the children and direct them in their search through the Library for books relating to the topics upon which the stories had been told. The entire increase in circulation of books from 85,961 in 1909, to 93,508 in 1910 came in this department, the children having taken out during the past year over 23,599 books as against 15,544 in 1909 (an increase of 52%) and 17,380 in 1908. The attendance of children rose from 30,088 to 40,939 or about 33%. The visits of adults increased from 60,924 in 1909 to 72,332 in 1910, but no greater number of books was taken out by them. What do these facts mean? They show that by 1909 the children had pretty well read the books then in the Library to which their attention had been drawn in previous years, but sufficient attention not having been given to their needs during 1909 on account of lack of funds, their use of the Library was decreasing; but the moment additional supplies of books were purchased and the proper 328 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT room provided, their attendance increased 33% and the number of books taken out by them 52%. The lack of increase in the use of books by adults during the period when their attendance increased so noticeably, is probably because the Library has not been able to secure a sufficient number of new volumes to materially attract them. The increasing adult attendance is evidence that if additional facilities were provided, adults would respond also by increased use of the Library, but this can only be done if we secure the appropriation necessary. Reference Department The immediate and pronounced benefits flowing from the establishment of the Children's Department encourages us to believe that a like satisfactory result would follow the creation of another equally necessary one, namely: that for reference and research. The main purpose of a public library is to foster and stimulate an educational advance in public thought. We can do this by placing in a separate specially arranged room all of our present reference books, adding a sufficient number of recent monographs and references on new subjects, and most important of all by putting the department in charge of an assistant librarian particularly and thoroughly trained in its special and exacting requirements. Public libraries have taken up the telling of stories to children for the purpose of arousing their interest in literature, nature study, history and other educational subjects, with the desire to assist in the creation of high standards of thought, and finally to lead them to an intelligent use of the library. The use of our standard books of educational value has not increased sufficiently, and the purpose of this new department should be an active presentation to the public of MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 320 the attractions offered by this class of literature. This can be done by a special line of work inviting their interest and attraction, by timely talks from competent experts on various subjects, by the issuance of special bulletins of a descriptive and interesting character, by assisting applicants in particular lines of investigation and in many other suggestive ways. Beginning in this reference department, the interest of our reading public would be broadened and stimulated to a wider use of the general library. Jt should be installed in accordance with the standard of convenience and efficiency set by the children's room, and should be done as soon as the means of support can be obtained. It is recommended to the Mayor and Aldermen that a sufficient appropriation be made for this purpose. Finances The receipts and expenditures are shown by the attached report of the Treasurer. The cash requirement deemed necessary to properly conduct the work of the Library for the year 1911 is $8,740.00, and this amount was requested from the city, but its appropriation was not increased, remaining $5,600 for 1911this being the smallest amount spent for this purpose by any city in the United States of the size and importance of Savannah. Starting with 23,500 books in 1903, the Library now contains 37,698 volumes, so that 60% of its total contents are books previously belonging to the Georgia Historical Society which had been gradually gathered together during the previous half century. Hence the working efficiency of the Library hardly exceeds 25,000 modern usable books, and yet, in spite of this limited provision, 113,000 persons visited the Library and took 93,508 books last year. Our recent census shows about 35,000 white population in Savannah. What does the municipality furnish to provide HA 330 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT reading matter for its average individual white citizen, and at what cost? The city appropriation allows us to expend sixteen cents for him each year. He has one book which he takes out two and two-thirds times in his three annual visits to the Library. A careful study of the Librarian's report and its complete statistics submitted herewith will amply show the demand for increased facilities which is so universal throughout the city and we earnestly invite our Honorable Mayor and Aldermen to realize the importance and benefit of this work sufficiently to set aside an appropriation adequate to properly maintain it. We desire to call attention to the systematic accounting and to the vouchers kept showing all expenditures. The Board has been spending the money of the City of Savannah now for eight years, but no audit of its accounts has ever been made by any official auditor, as should be done annually. We request and recommend that an auditor of accounts be appointed by the city to examine and audit the accounts of this department of the City Government. The Georgia Historical Society has requested that the books specifically retained by it be properly cataloged and set apart, as is required by the contract between the City of Savannah and that Society. Of the books turned over by it for public use, some are valuable reference books which will be completely and properly cataloged, while many are books of no value which should be removed from the shelves. The only answer the Board of Managers can make to this request is that the city has not appropriated the money for these purposes, and that it has not the means at the present time to perform this duty. New Building This subject has been commented upon in former reports; but as the demand for a suitable modern library building MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 331 increases every year, we must grow more insistent on the subject. The creation of the Children's Department was in response to this need, and shows what can be accomplished by a few well-spent dollars. The suggested Reference Department adds its emphasis to the urgency of the want. If every voter of Savannah could be shown the public library buildings in Atlanta, Jacksonville, Columbus and many smaller neighboring cities, or could inspect the Congressional Library at Washington, the Astor Library in New York and the Boston Public Library, we could have an overwhelming popular vote for the erection of a dignified, commodious and suitable building by our city for its people. The unanimous public approval following our liberal policy of beautifying the parks and squares is sufficient evidence of the cultivated taste of our community. Nothing more surely improves a city in every way than a convenient and ready access to good books, placed in a building of handsome architectural design suitably equipped for its purposes. Such a building would be a monument of universal interest to every one. No community can progress satisfactorily unless its people are imbued with high ideals which they strive to attain. A library of the first class in every essential is the agency best calculated to breed these ideals. Shall we supply this pressing need of our people ? Respectfully submittedby order of the Board of Managers, GEORGE J. BALDWIN, Chairman Board of Managers, Savannah Public Library. 332 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Report of Librarian SAVANNAH, GA., January 2, 1911. To THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE SAVANNAH PUBLIC LIBRARY. GENTLEMEN :I submit herewith the eighth annual report of our Library, and it gives me pleasure to say that the record it discloses is one of which we need not be ashamed. Beginning the year 1910 with 33,141 volumes on our shelves, we find at its close that the collection has been enriched by a net gain of 4,557 volumes, leaving us at the present time with a total of 37,698, as the following table exhibits: Number of volumes at beginning of year ........... 33,141 Number of volumes added by purchase......... ......3,228 Number of volumes added by gift..................... 896 Number of volumes added by government. ....... 458 4,582 Total............................................... 37,723 Withdrawals Number of volumes worn out and condemned.... 14 Number of volumes lost and paid for.__........... 11 25 Total number of volumes at beginning of 1911._. 37,698 It is proper that special mention be made of the large number of gifts, and that the names of some of our benefactors be given. The late Dr. Richard J. Nunn, who was a member of your Board from the time the Library was founded until his death, left to the Georgia Historical Society a certain portion of his library, amounting to 1,019 volumes and 829 pamphlets; and these, by agreement with that Society, became available MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 333 as soon as they were delivered to the Librarian by the executors of the estate. Next to this in importance, and of timely usefulness, was the gift by the honored Chairman of your Board, Mr. George J. Baldwin, of 84 books specially selected for consultation in connection with the recently organized Associated Charities of the City of Savannah. Besides these, we have received from Mr. F. M. Whittle 98 volumes, Mrs. J. G. Smith 22 volumes, Mr. Fahy 7 volumes, besides Mrs. H. A. Schroder 4 volumesall useful books. Included in the additions are 509 volumes transferred from the duplicate collection to the free collection. No binding has been done during the year, but 405 books have been mended in the Library. The exhibits attached to this report show that in every respect noteworthy gains have been made; but I call your special attention to the increase in the number of books circulated, and the large number of visitors. They also show a healthy growth in the circulation of books in the duplicate collection. In my last report I expressed the hope that there would be no great delay in the time for opening the separate children's department, which was then thought to be near at hand. This hope was fully realized, and the room was opened on the 22d of February, with a large attendance of the excited and intensely interested little ones. The room has been admired by every one who has entered it, and it is in every way attractive and well suited for the purpose for which it is intended. At its installation 699 books were transferred from the shelves upstairs, and since then 611 have been added, a large number of which were entirely new, having been purchased by Miss McLaws, the librarian of that department, who visited the places where all the best paraphernalia for libraries are manufactured and kept, and the furniture for the room was likewise selected by her. 334 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Shortly after the opening of the children's room a schedule was made up and approved by the Library Committee, and also by the Board of Managers, containing lists of subjects and the times for telling stories to the children during the story hour. It was found impracticable to follow out this plan in its entirety during the first year, but stories were told as follows: March 17, on St. Patrick; April 26, on the meaning of Memorial Day; in May, a talk on the library; June 3, on Jefferson Da vis; July 4, on the American Revolution; in July, fairy tales of different countries; September, fairy tales; October, fairy tales; November, King Arthur and fairy tales; December, Christmas stories. The stories were told by Miss Phoebe Elliott, Miss Agnes Lyons, Mrs. William Harden, Miss Maude Heyward, (assistant librarian) Miss McLaws, (librarian of the children's department), and by your Librarian. At the time the children's department was installed 1,054 card-holders were transferred from upstairs, and 839 new cards have been issued, making the number now registered in that department 1,893. There seems to be a demand for information concerning the work we are doing in the matter of cataloguing, and I take pleasure in making the following statement. For some time we kept up the system prevailing when this Library was made a free Public Library, the shelves and numbers being fixed; but that system, while all right for a small library, is now out of date, and the work of re-cataloguing under the Dewey, or decimal, system, has been in progress for more than a year. I give a brief account of this system: "The field of knowledge is divided into nine main classes, and these are numbered by the digits 1 to 9. Cyclopedias, periodicals, etc., so general in character as to belong to no one of these classes, are marked' naught, and form a tenth class. Each class is similarly separated into nine divisions, general works belonging to no division, having naught in place of the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 335 division number. Divisions are similarly divided into nine sections, and the process is repeated as often as necessary. Thus 512 means Class 5 (Natural Science), Divison 1 (Mathematics), Section 2 (Algebra), and every algebra is numbered 512. The books on the shelves and the cards in the subject catalogue are arranged in simple numerical order, all class numbers being decimals. Since each subject has a definite number, it follows that all books on any subject must stand together. The tables show the order in which subjects follow one another. Thus 512 Algebra precedes 513 Geometry, and follows 511 Arithmetic. In the book after the tables of the classes arranged in their numerical order is an index, in which all the heads of the tables are arranged in one simple alphabet, with the class number of each referring to its exact place in the preceding tables. This index includes also, as far as they have been found, all the synonyms or alternative names for the heads, and many other entries that seem likely to help a reader find readily the subject sought. Though the user knows just where to turn to his subject in the tables, by first consulting the index, he may be sent to other allied subjects, where he will find valuable matter which he would otherwise overlook." In connection with this system we are using, as far as it can be done, the catalogue cards prepared by the Library of Congress, said cards being furnished to subscribing libraries which pay little more than actual cost of getting them up. Under the Dewey system and using the Library of Congress cards, the following sections of our Library have been entirely catalogued: History, Travels, Science, Useful Arts, Sociology, Reference; and the following are partially catalogued: Literature, Religion, Biography, Philosophy, Fine Artsthe work of cataloguing going on constantly, and each section receiving its share of attention. The cards sent out by the Library of Congress save much labor, and are used when it is practicable to do so. Our catalogue is in regular form, and is up to the highest standard. 336 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT I can repeat in all sincerity everything I have heretofore said in regard to the ability and satisfactory assistance of Miss Maude Heyward, Miss Elizabeth V. McLaws, and Miss Selina Heyward. At the beginning of the year, your Librarian was authorized to receive for instruction in library work two apprentices. Accordingly, Miss Anne Dunwody and Miss Pamela Lucas applied and were received almost immediately after the decision of the Board, and it is with pleasure that I report that they have been apt students, having a desire to learn all that there is to be known in the profession. Miss Dunwody has finished the prescribed course, and is now fitted for the position of assistant in any library. The term of Miss Lucas is nearly out, and she will be equally as well qualified for a position. We have, as usual, prepared for the use of persons engaged in special studies, and for furnishing information on important questions of the times, lists of books in our Library useful to the inquirer after knowledge. The lists so madeup were on Astronomy, Goethe, Books for the Blind, Charities, Christmas stories, Domestic Economy, Gardening, Ibsen, Italian Renaissance, Mark Twain, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Music and Operas, Play in Education, Roosevelt's Works, and the Short Story. Most ofthese were illustrated with pictures posted on the bulletinboard. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) WM. HARDEN, Librarian. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 337 _ __ ___ _ _ _ *i f- 00 -* ~i< *-* to f-oo't^cot-c'<*eMt6o- otooooojciTfoo _ __ ____ _ .... .. oo >ooio.*oc(NOoc cs to -H co oj oo * .._-_.__-______.. h-^t-oojoo^oo uorjot^ to>-'C5r-^-i-ir-i^irf^i ^4^^ O0.co,'*< co,'~i'^ltp. COO1O1U500OOOIO i-i'ofofcJofco'co" *~'ti)aocfc)wjcNtJoi''"TCTJCM OOCt OpOt^-tOO] O OlO)r-(T-Ht-H!-<(f-4-H-HT( * i-l O O i-i C-i-H CO CO * fC2COCNICOe i CO TO CO O) H (M rf O) Ol Ol CO 2 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT SDAJ3S3>J U I CO "2 O O & W AJBjqii J stripy }o ~*2 % * 01 ccc: in=.M t~ -*io O 00 O) CO CD 00 O CO * CO cc c o 00 oo 5 C-. IM * CO -t ICO _ __ o co" r^ to "O co" c=" ic i-" us !N ri CO IN CO O of cT t~ cc in co" us OO CO Jg I s :?40 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Classified List of Card-Holders Architects.......... .... .... . 4 Artists......... ....... 12 Authors... ... . . 3 Bakers. . ...... 10 Bankers._....... . 25 Blacksmiths...-. 17 Boiler Makers... ... .... 12 Book Binders......... . . 7 Brewers........ 6 Brokers....... 32 Butchers.--....... . 8 Cabinet Makers. 9 Carpenters..... 34 Chemists.............. ... 7 Civil Engineers.... .... . 23 Clergymen....... ... . ...... 9 Clerks............. 2,401 Conductors...- 26 Contractors._ ..... ... . 14 Dairymen......... . ... 8 Dressmakers...... . ...... 11 Druggists...... ...... . 25 Editors......... ........ 9 Electricians._.._....... 27 Engineers, Railroad.. 30 Exporters.-. ..... . . . ... 13 Firemen............... .... . 62 Grocers.......... 25 Hairdressers... . 3 Inspectors............ ........... 17 Insurance Agents...... ' 37 Iron Workers....... ...... 4 Jewelers............. ... 9 Journalists...................... 16 Kindergarten Teachers 48 Lawyers........ ........ ...... . 62 Letter Carriers.^-......... 4 Machinists........................ 104 Managers............... 127 Merchants...... .... .... . 233 Milliners..... . . .. . ... 8 Musicians...... ... ... .... 51 Painters.....-... ... 20 Paper Hangers........ .. 6 Pawn Brokers.... ...... 6 Photographers..... .... .... 12 Physicians....... . ..... . .. ' 18 Pilots......... ...... 9 Planters._........ .......... 12 Plumbers... ..... 14 Policemen.... ...... 30 Port Wardens............ 1 Printers...................... 37 Real Estate Agents .... 30 Railroad Officials.......... 16 Reporters..................... 17 Secretaries (Private) .... 28 Steamship Officials. . . 20 Stenographers .......... 156 Students.. .... ............ . 5,127 Teachers.......................... 172 Telegraph Operators .... 17 Tinners.......-........ 9 Trained Nurses......... 37 Upholsterers. ............ 11 Watchmen....... ......... 19 Wheelwrights.... .-.... 10 Wood Dealers................. 5 Females, no employment........ .................... 1,860 Males, no employment 981 Total...........-.12,272 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 341 Classified List of Books Purchased Showing Percentage of Each Class 1909 1910 Fiction....... ............ .... ....... .. . - ....68.9 75.4 History............... ......... ..........'. ......... 10.9 8.2 Literature.......... . .. ........... ....... ......... . .... . .... 3.8 3.3 Fine Arts.......... .............. .................. 3.8 1.3 Useful Arts...... ................. .... ...... . 3. 4.3 Natural Science .................... . ........ . . ... 2.5 1.2 Philology.............. ........ . ................... .1 .1 Sociology......... .......... ...... .. . . .. .......... 1.4 3.4 Religion........... ......... ........ .. .. ........ .8 .3 Philosophy............ .. ... ........... . ... .. . .7 .4 General.............. . .. . .. . ....... ...... .9 1.1 Books for the Blind........ ... . . ... 3.2 1.0 Total per cent....................................................100.0 100.0 Classified List of Periodicals Subscribed For Literary Reviews........ .............. ....... ......... ....... . ... .. ... ..... 7 Popular Literature.................... . ........ ........................ . ..... . ..24 Historical.............. ............ ........................... ...... . ....4 Fine Arts...... ............... ........ ............ ................... ....6 Useful Arts......................................................... .... .. ........ .10 Bibliography................ .... ......... . ... .. . ........ ..... ...... 3 Religion.................................................... ... ... ...... .....4 Domestic Economy. ........................... .... ..... . ....4 Juvenile.......... .......................................... .. ... .. ..... .. C Language......... .. .... ... ....... ......... .. ... .... . ... . ... 1 Music............. .............. .. .......................... ...... .. ... 1 Horticulture...................... ................................... .2 Humor._..................................................................... .. . 3 Science.-... .............................. ... ...... ...... ... .1] Medical.................... ........................ ... .. ... 2 Sociology...... .................... ....... ............... .3 Trade............ ........... ................... .... ..... . .2 Technical......... ................... ............ .. . .4 Total................... .................. .................... ... . ... .97 342 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT TREASURER'S REPORT January 1,1910 to January 1,1911 Receipts Cash on hand January 1, 1910.............. ....... $1,410.71 From City of Savannah.................. . . .... 5,599.60 From Book Rent................... . ......... ........ . . 773.46 From Fines and Reserves........... . .. . . 652.76 From Money Refunded (on biil).... . . ... ............. 12.65 $8,449.18 Expenditures Salaries............ . .. . ... ... ...... ..... ... ... . .... .$3,600.00 Binding....... .............. . . ...... .. 288.65 New Books............................ ......... 2,085.71 Periodicals, etc......................... .. . ..................... 231.55 Fuel......... ................. ......... .. .... . ... ... . ... ... . 118.40 Lighting................. ....................... ............. . . .... . 251.73 Stationery.... ........................ .. .... ............... ...... 130.70 Printing.......... ..... ............. ........... ............. . .. 166.04 Repairs-.....__............................... . ....................... . 57.95 Improvements.................................. .. ..... .... ............... 173.66 Furniture.......... ................................... ............. .... 767.46 Insurance.............................. ............................... ..-. 40.00 Miscellaneous....................... ... ........ . . ... . 354.37 Total............................. .............. .. ....... . ...$8,266.22 Cash on hand January 1, 1911................. .... .........$ 182.96 The December, 1910, unpaid bills, not yet presented for payment, will about cover cash balance on hand. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) JOHN M. THOMAS, Treasurer Public Library. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 343 I have examined the accounts and books of the Treasurer of the Public Library from the first of January, 1910, to the first of January, 1911, and find the same correct, with proper vouchers produced, and a balance in the hands of the Treasurer of one hundred and eighty-two dollars and ninety-six cents ($182.96), (Signed) N. B. F. CLOSE, Chairman Finance Committee, Public Librarv. :J44 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT KATE BALDWIN FREE KINDERGARTEN ASSOCIATION. March 18, 1911. HOK. GEO. W. TIEDEMAX, Mayor. City of Savannah. SIR: In submitting to you the eleventh annual report of the Elate Baldwin Free Kindergarten, I beg your earnest attention to the quality of the work now being done in Savannah, as therein set forth, which is receiving most favorable attention from educational authorities in many parts of the United States. One of our publications entitled "Why Should the Kindegarten be a part of the Public School System?" has created wide interest and been several times reprinted. Hardly a week passes without the receipt of requests for information concerning our methods or for some of our reports, coming impartially from eastern, northern, western and southern cities. By 1909 the Kindergarten had become a part of the Public School System in 264 of our cities and has proved its value as a fundamental part of a proper public school system when conducted in accordance with the sound principles upon which we believe it has been founded in Savannah. A ripened intelligence, experience and skill are everywhere changing the scope and methods of the meagre child MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 345 ________________i_______________ training of former times in accordance with the better knowledge of modern educators. If the City of Savannah is to keep pace with the progress of her sister cities in material prosperity, her children must have the benefit of 'the best obtainable educational facilities. The education of yesterday is no better adapted to the training of the citizens of the future than is the machinery of past times fitted to fulfill the requirements of tomorrow. Four grand juries of Chatham County have advocated the adoption of Kindergartens by our Public School System. The present grand jury list have expressed their similar personal opinion, and eliminating those in doubt Or not heard from, have done so by a vote of 154 to 7, or 22 to 1. This action of the citizens composing our grand jury may be taken as representing the opinion of our people in general. It therefore seems fitting that I should request you, as the chief representative of this city upon our Board of Education, to use your position, your influence and that of your two appointees upon the Board, toward the end that all children in Savannah may have the benefits of an elementary education now confined to the very few who can be reached by private effort in the four existing Free Kindergartens. Respectfully submitted, GEO. J. BALDWIN, President, Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten. 346 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Report of Supervisor December 31, 1910. MR. GEORGE J. BALDWIN, President, Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten Association, Savannah, Georgia. DEAR SIR: In presenting an annual report of the Kindergarten it is necessary each year, in order that the report be confined to a reasonable length, to emphasize some one phase of the work. The report for 1908,-my first year as Supervisor, gave special attention to the means taken for the physical care and well being of the children; medical inspection; the removal, when possible, of physical disabilities; the expert, attention to proper food, clothing, sleep and cleanlinessall as essential and basic elements of a proper education. The report for 1909 offered a brief interpretation of the Kindergarten and its allied community organizations on the human side; the value of the work in its power to quicken the higher elements of life. It endeavored to show how each of its phases has an end and a significance beyond the merely obvious accomplishment; a social purpose that includes character, service, cooperation, a reverent spirit and the heart of brotherhood. It pointed out that this larger accomplishment has always two aspects, "the highest development of the individual's powers, and the right ordering of his relations with others." MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 347 The report for 1910 marked the tenth year of the work of this Association. It called attention to the fundamental educational concepts underlying the Kindergarten; concepts that, by their proved efficiency and worth, have inspired and continue to inspire this Association, numbering only four people, to maintain three Kindergartens and to urge upon the public educational authorities the need of extending the Kindergarten through the public school system; to urge this, not alone for the benefit of the large number of children of Kindergarten age that at present have no Kindergarten education, but for the sake too of the vitalizing influences, the permeating educational values, that always accrue to the entire system of public education when the Kindergarten is properly established as an integral part of public school work This year, I ask your special consideration of the Kindergarten as an economic institution, a plant that yields large returns for the capital invested, a conservator of human, wealth. % It is sometimes argued by boards of education and finance that the Kindergarten, although an excellent system of education, is a great luxury; that it demands two teachers in a class room instead of one, and that it requires a special and expensive equipment, and an equipment that is used by the children only from nine until twelve instead of for the full school day. In spite of these charges, supposing them to be true, the Kindergarten might still be economically justified. It would only be necessary to prove that the exceptional value of the education was a warrant for the exceptional expense"good things come high." But is it true ? A careful attention to the facts of the case as exemplified in the Kindergartens of this association will prove the contrary. 348 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT TheKindergartens and their equipment are used not only from nine o'clock until twelve, but practically every afternoon in the week, and not until two o'clock merelythe end of the public school day in Savannahbut until six o'clock, and are also frequently used in the evening from eight o'clock until ten. A principal of a large school said to me recently, "How do you get your teachers to do so much outside work? My teachers are earnest workers but I could not ask it of them." I replied, "I do not get them to do it; I do not even ask them to do it; the impulse to do it comes from the nature of the Kindergarten work." This so called "outside work" is really not outside but inside. It is the very heart and core of the meaning of Kindergarten, a living education that includes all aspects of the child's world, not a system of instruction apart from life and conduct. I ask you to consider the significance of the following figures: / This association supports three Kindergartens with a total enrollment of 148 children. The Kindergartners have paid 849 visits in the homes of the children during the last school year of eight months. The aggregate attendance of mothers at the mothers' meetings held in the Kindergartens for this year is 795. The aggregate attendance of boys and girls in club meetings is approximately 2,500. This represents six clubs, and a membership of ninety children between the ages of nine and fifteen. Three more clubs are about to be formed which will increase the aggregate membership to about 120. Domestic Science Three afternoons a month the mothers meet in groups of twelve to study practical cooking and housekeeping problems MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 340 with Miss Martha Sasnett. Miss Sasnett gives her services in this work and has done so for three years as a testimony of appreciation for her own Kindergarten training which she nds of continued and increasing value to her in her life and in her work as a teacher of domestic science. Visiting Nurses Trained nurses visit the Kindergartens and inspect all the children regularly once each week and oftener whenever it seems advisable. These nurses visit the homes of the children, personally care for the sick, consult with the mothers, and not only advise and help in the care of sick children, but also work for the prevention of disease through the proper care of well children and through instruction in general household sanitation. Mrs. Young, visiting nurse supported by the Parsons* Fund, inspects Chatham and East Side Kindergartens. Miss Romeo, visiting nurse supported by the Mary Maclean Circle, inspects South Side Kindergarten. The Work of the Specialist Diseases of the throat, nose, eyes and ears in the Kindergarten children receive the expert attention of Dr. H. H. Martin. No less than forty Kindergarten children have come under his care this year. Most of them were adenoid cases, and successful operations were performed in the hospitals; the work being divided among the Telfair, St. Joseph's and the Savannah Hospitals. This year for the first time we have had a few cases of trachoma. I am glad to report that the prompt disco very by Dr. Martin of this contagious eye disease prevented dissemination. There were seven cases in all and the disease was found in other members of the household from which the afflicted children came. Several of the cases were older chil- -250 MAYOR'S AXNUAL REPORT dren who attend the public schools. Dr. Martin kindly offered his services for these children also. This is the fourth year of Dr. Martin's volunteer work for the Kindergarten children. During that time he has preformed over a hundred successful operations for adenoids. Entering South Side Kindergarten this year was a little boy who was incapable of articulate speech because of a tied tongue. His parents knew of his disability but said that the child was so terrified at the thought of an operation that they had lacked courage to have one performed. The Kinder- gartner took the case in hand and the result was a willing, consenting little boy who submitted without struggle or protest to the slight operation, which was preformed in the Kindergarten at the close of a morning's session. Dr. Thomas S. Clay performed the operation. The Kindergartners, Miss Anderson and Miss Oppenheimer, were present. After the operation the child returned to his home in fine spirits, as glad to be freed from his afflictions and his terrors, and as proud of his self control and courage as a small boy could well be. New Plans for the Health of the Children Plans are under way for the establishment of a dental clinic for the Kindergarten children. The absence of any trained standard for the care of the teeth and mouth of young children makes this work imperative. Festivals An evidence of close community cooperation is always present in the Kindergarten celebration of the festivals. May day, the spring festival; Thanksgiving, the harvest festival; Christmas, Lee's birthday and Washington's birthday are characteristically observed in the Kindergartens. .The Kin- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 351 dergarten children, their parents and the boys and girls clubs all help in the preparation and all join in the celebration. Once each year the various Kindergarten communities unite in the keeping of one of these festivals. Last year Thanksgiving was celebrated in this larger way, the year before May day, and this year Christmas. Two hundred little children under six years old danced and sang around the largest Christmas tree that had found its way from the Maine forest to Savannah. The following extract from the Savannah Morning News gives an impression of the general character of the celebration: "The hall was gayly decked with boughs of holly, great branches of holly and Christmas berries being fastened between the windows. In the center of the room stood a tall spreading fir tree, lighted and adorned with the Christmas gifts the children themselves had made in the kindergartens. For the kindergarten Christmas tree is always one that bears not gifts for the little people themselves, but for their friends, carrying in this way the full message of Christmas to the children. There were, however, pleasant surprises in store for them at the end of the afternoon, when their own little trees, which stood in the four corners of the hall and had been brought straight from the kindergartens just as the children had decorated them, were found to bear a great burden of pretty gifts, dolls for the little girls, and reins with bells for the little boys. "The boys' and girls' clubs were present as special guests and the Recreation Club, one of the girls clubs of Chatham, gave some folk dances at the end of the afternoon. The Christmas festival had been preceded by meetings of all the community clubs of the Kindergartens at which the Christmas carols to be sung by the children yesterday were sung and some of the games played. The girl's clubs of the three kindergartens met specially to learn the Christmas carols and songs 352 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT that they might have a real share in the children's Christmas festival, and the Tomochichi Club, which is the boys' club of Southside, gave a Robin Hood play, "How Will Stutely Was Rescued by His Good Companions," at their club rooms. Southside Kindergarten, last Friday night before a large audience of mothers, fathers and friends." Directory of Kindergartens The number of free Kindergartens in Savannah at present is four, maintained as follows: Three supported and maintained by this association, namely: South Side Kindergarten, Montgomery and Thirty-first streets, Jessie Anderson, Principal; Clare Oppenheimer, Assistant. Number of children on register, 58. Chatham Kindergarten, East Broad and Taylor streets, Carol P. Oppenheimer, Principal; Henrietta A. Falk, Assistant. Number of children on register, 45. East Side Kindergarten, Habersham and Congress streets. Clara B. Vaughan, Principal; Loretto McCarthy, Assistant. Number of children on register, 45. Total number of children on register in the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten Association, 148. One, supported by the Council of Jewish Women and the Kindergarten Mothers' Club: The Kindergarten of the Council, Ann and West Broughton streets. Leonora Amram, Principal. Number of children on register, 32. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT The Savannah Kindergarten Last October a new private Kindergarten was opened under the name of the'Savannah Kindergarten. This Kindergarten united two private Kindergartens and Miss Harriet B. Hardee and Miss Edith L. West, principals of the separate kindergartens, became co-principals of the Savannah Kindergarten with Miss Marie Nisbet as assistant. They rented two connecting rooms in the Pape school building, corner of Drayton and Bolton streets, and entirely renovated and redecorated these rooms, making them hygienic, simple, beautiful, an expression of education in environment. The success of this new Kindergarten venture is evidenced by the fact that from the first it has carried a waiting list and this list has grown steadily larger through the year. All people and especially children should be surrounded with wholesomeness and beauty. This is a primary aim in all our Kindergartens. We agree with Henderson that "a man's surroundings are a part of himself and must likewise be chastened and purified. An ugly room, badly lighted, poorly ventilated, inadequately heated, must be regarded as morally reprehensible. It enters into consciousness and lowers the level of human life." Boys' and Girls' Clubs The total number of Boys' and Girls' clubs connected with the free Kindergartens is eight. Six of these are connected with the Kindergartens of this Association, the other two with the Kindergarten of the Council. The list is as follows: The Recreation Club (girls); Leader, Miss Oppenheimer. Place of meeting, Chatham Kindergarten. Time of meeting, Tuesday afternoon at 3:35 o'clock. Membership, 15. Age of member, 12 to 15. 12 35-t MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT The American Girls' Club; Leader, Miss Falk. Place of meeting, Chatham Kindergarten. Time of meeting, Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Membership, 18. Age of members, 9 to 12. The Merry Makers (girls); Leader, Miss Anderson. Place of meeting, South Side Kindergarten. Time of meeting, Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Membership, 20. Age of members, 10 to 14. The Tomochichi Club (boys); Leader, Miss Judge. Place of meeting, South Side Kindergarten. Time of meeting, Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Membership, 16. Age of members, 12 to 15. The Happy Hour Club (girls); Leader, Miss Vaughan. Place of meeting, Chatham Kindergarten. Time of meeting, Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Membership, 16. Age of members, 9 to 12. Boys Club; Leader, Miss DeLoach. Place of meeting, Chatham Kindergarten. Time of meeting, Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Membership, 10. Age of members, 9 to 12. The Montefiore Jr. Club (boys); Leader, Mr. Fiedelson. Place of meeting, Council Kindergarten. Membership, 15. Age of members, 15 to 18. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT The True Pleasure Club (girls); Leader, Miss Arnram. Place of meeting, Council Kindergarten. Membership, 24. Age of members, 9 to ]">. No better medium for training in democracy than the self-governing club for boys and girls has ever been devised. Self-imposed obedience to law and order; respect for the rights of others; the loyal following of a leader elected by the majority; honor in word and deed, in meeting obligations and in carrying responsibility; and above all a social consciousness, a closer brotherhood; are some of the things that a good self-governing club teaches. These clubs represents a wide range of interests and activities. One club has been visiting Savannah institutions as part of its work, making its members acquainted with the artistic, educational and industrial equipment of the city through a range of visits as wide as is represented by the Telfair Academy and the cotton mills. Another club has been reliving the Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and the interest of the club members in this wholesome hero and his brave men has not simply carried them in imagination back to Sherwood Forest but literally into the woods outlying Savannah where they went for trees and greens to make a stage setting for a play of Robin Hood, dramatized by themselves from Howard Pyle's stirring tale' of this hero. Mothers' Clubs A Mothers' Club is established in connection with each of the free Kindergartens. Southside Mothers' Club; membership 50. President, Mrs. Sullivan; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Sutlive. 356 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Chatham Mothers' Club; membership 45. President, Mrs. Oliver; Vice-President, Mrs. Dulohery. Treasurer, Mrs. Robertson; Secretary, Mrs. Halligan. Eastside Mothers' Club; membership 45. President, Mrs. Robider; Secretary, Mrs. Daly. Treasurer, Mrs. Goldrick. The Council Mothers' Club; membership 20. President, Mrs. Paderewski. The strength of the Mothers' Club has long been one of the most significant features of the work of this Association. Each year these clubs take more independent and more intelligent initiative and they therefore offer an increasingly effective cooperation with the work of the kindergarten in all its phases. Conclusion This Association is promoting education in a very wide sense. Its equipment serves not only the Kindergarten but the Boys and Girls Clubs; the Mothers'meetings; the Parents' meetings; Domestic Science classes; the expert care of health through trained nurses, medical inspection and the work of the specialists. It serves also the deeper significance of the joyous aspects of life, in the festival, the folk dance, the organized games and the simple drama. All these things pull together for power in the life of the individual. "The end of life is human discipline, it is not the getting of property, not even the getting of knowledge, but it is the getting of character and accomplishment, a human acquisitiveness. This is an old message, but it is increasingly imperative. It is first of all to be, and then to know and to do, and only incidentally to have."* * Education and the Larger Life.HENDERSOK. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 357 This report began by asking your special consideration of the Kindergarten as an economic institution. The fundamental aim in all sound ecomony is to get the maximum product out of equipment. In the light of the facts here presented is not the Kindergarten a supremely successful economic institu tion r Respectfully submitted, HORTENSE M. ORCUTT, Supervisor of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten. FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GA. 1910 360 MAYOR'S ANXUAL REPORT . Officers GEO. J. BALDWIN'..........................................................President SAMUEL B. ADAMS......... .................................First Vice-President ARTHUR J. O'HARA............... ..................Second Vice-President GEO. J. MILLS................................................................Treasurer NEYLECOLQUITT...,..................................Recording Secretary G. ARTHUR GORDON"..................Chairman Executive Committee M. A. O'BYRN*E.............................Chairman Finance Committee Miss HELEN B. PEXDLETOX............................General Secretary Directors SAMUEL B. ADAMS G. ARTHUR GORDON LEOPOLD ADLER HARVEY GRANGER GEORGE J. BALDWIN Jos. F. GRAY GEORGE H. BALDWIN HENRY M. JOHNSON CRAIG BARROW B. H. LEVY R. M. BUTLER HENRY McALPix JAS. R. CAIN Geo. J. MILLS GEO. T. CANN VIVIAN M. MYERS T. J. CHARLTON M. A. O'BYRNE F. W. CLARKE ARTHUR J. O'HARA XEYLE COLQUITT J. M. ROGERS HENRY C. CUXXIXGHAM H. B. SK.EELE J AMRS FARIE. Jr." FRED WESSELS, Jr. WM. W. GORDON WALTER S. WILSON Ex-Officio Members HON. GEO. W. TIEDEMAX............................Mayor of Savannah HON. WALTER G. CHARLTOX, Judge of Superior and Juvenile Courts HON. A. B. MOORE .............Chairman County Commissioners DR. W. F. BRUXXER........................Health Officer of Savannah Executive Committee G. ARTHUR GORDON, Chairman LEOPOLD ADLER H. B. SKEELE MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 361 Finance and Membership Committee M. A. O'BYRNE, Chairman R. M. BUTLER B. H. LEVY GEORGE J. MILLS, Ex-Officio Tuberculosis Committee DR. WALTER S. WILSON, Chairman F. W. CLARKE DR. T. J. CHARLTONB. H. LEVY GEORGE J. BALDWINA. B. MOORE H. C. CUNNINGHAM DR. CRAIG BARROW GEORGE T. CAX.V J2A MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF SAVANNAH, GA. January 31. 1911. His HOXOR, GEO, W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor City of Savannah. SIR:I have the honor to transmit the first annual report of The Associated Charities of Savannah, Ga., for the year ending December 31, 1910. Yours very truly. GEO. J. BALDWIN. President. A Good Beginning The Associated Charities' office was opened January 1, 1910. In its first twelve months the Society has made 730 investigations. Received and written 1,695 letters. Made through its workers 1,394 visits. Enlisted aid for 207 families from charitable individuals. Enlisted aid for 57 families from societies. Enlisted aid for 14 families from relatives. Enlisted aid for 14 families from churches. *Spent $1,149.00 for relief as agent for charitable societies and individuals. Inaugurated a Weekly Case Committee to advise and help in the treatment of needy families. *This only represents the tunds received and expended by the Associated Charities. The generous relief given, to the poor at the request of the Society cannot be accurately tabulated. MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT 303 Treasurer's Report to January 1, 1911 Received for Administrative Expenses......... ............. $.3,414.00 Received for Relief.......................................................... 1,231.10 Salaries............................................ $2,411.00 Stationery, etc..................................... 144.72 Postage........-..-.............................. loli.Sl Printing......................................... 140.70 Furniture and Fixtures.................. 215.03 Traveling Expenses........................... 209.94 Relief.................................................... 1,100.58 Balance.....-.........................-..........-..... 259.72 $4,645.10 $4,045.10 Balance in bank................................ $200.01 Outstanding Check...................... .. (5.89 Balance on hand January 1st. $259.72 Geo. J. Baldwin, Esq., President, DEAR SIR:The above represents the operations of the Organization for the year, showing net balance of $259.72. GEO. J. MILLS. Treasurer Receipts and Expenditures for Relief Money Received and Expended by the Associated Charities for Special and Emergency Relief: Received from Cotton Exchange Christmas tree........ $ 200.00 Received from Individuals, Churches and Societies for special cases._.........,.................. 345.94 Total Expenditures for Relief........ $534.19 Balance January 1, 1911.................... 11.75 $545.94 $ 545.94 3(54 MAYOR'S AX.VUAL REPORT Money Received and Expended for Tuberculosis Relief and Educational Propaganda: Received for Educational Propaganda, Printing, Stamps,etc.............................................................. $ 175.00 Received for Relief, Milk, Eggs, etc.......................... 592.61 Spent for Educational Propaganda . $1(57.37 Spent for Relief.................................. 448.17 Balance January 1. 1911... ................ 152.07 $767.61 $ 767.61 Total Receipts for Relief and Tuberculosis.............. $1,313.55 Total Expenditures for Relief and Tuberculosis...... 1,149.73 Balance Relief and Tuberculosis January 1, 1911................................................................. $ 163.82 *X. B. $82.45 was received and expended for relief before an account was opened with the bank. Statistics Concerning Families and Individuals Reported to the Associated Charities for Investigation and Relief January 1, 1910, to January 1, 1911. Total number families and individuals reported for investigation and help................................................... 5(57 Families and indivuals referred for investigation, etc., more than once........................................................... 163 Total number of investigations and reports made... 730 Not found at address given............................................... 2 Total number of people involved..................................... 1,869 Total number over 55 years of age...................................... 147 Total number under 12 years of age................................. 545 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 365 Reported by: Applicants themselves............. ......................................... 169 Business firms........................................................................ 44 Charitable institutions and organizations....................... 56 Church officers and workers.............................................. 50 City officials........ .......................................................... ...... 33 County officials ............................................................... 10 Hospitals......................................... ...................................... 7 Individuals...................................................................... 244 Out of town inquiries...... ...... ..................................... 24 Physicians................ ................... ....................................... 37 Teachers........ ...........'......................................................... 10 Police officers.................................................................... 22 Visiting nurses........................ ....................... ..................... 18 Total............................... . ..................................... 730 Social Conditions Married couples...................................................................... 200 Widows................................................................................... 108 Deserted wives...-............................................................... 42 Widowers... ............................................................................ 18 Divorced and separated........................................................ 8 Single women._............................,....... 37 Single men (resident)............................................................ 14 Single men (transient).......................................................... Ill Married men (transient).......................................... 29 Total. ................................................................ ............. 5(>7 Treatment and Disposition of Cases Transportation obtained.................. ........ ....................... 28 Aided by churches......................... .... ...... .................... 14 Aided by Individuals... ................. .................................. 207 Aided bv cttv. ............ ... ... ............... ............................:.. 20 366 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Aided by relatives..........-.-................................................ 14 Persons for whom permanent employment was secured 24 Number of times temporary employment was secured... 12 Medical aid given.._........_....................................................... 24 Placed in hospitals............................................................... 19 Referred to visiting nurses............... .................................... 57 Referred to other charities................................................... 57 Placed in institutions (permanent)._.._.......................... 12 Placed in institutions (temporary)................................... 4 Office Work and Visitation Callers at office......._...._...._........__....~.-..~~......................... 1,97(5 Visits to and in behalf of the poor...................................... 1,394 Letters received........................'........................................... 88$ Letters sent........................................................................... 807 Telegrams received............................................................. 30 Telegrams sent...........................-.......................... 4(> Directors and committee meetings................................... 4t> Meetings attended by the Secretary to explain the work of the Society.................................................................. 26 A Foreword from the President In submitting to the public their first annual report, the Directors of the Associated Charities of Savannah believe the organization has fully justified its existence, is accomplishing its purposes and has expended its funds in a manner best promoting both the welfare of those who need its help and of the community at large. They express the hope that the results will meet with the approval of their fellow-workers and of those who have supplied the money. The earnest work of the members of the Board and its General Secretary has been continuous, systematic and sympathetic as may be inferred from the forty-six Board and Committee meetings held during the year, the twenty-six conferences of the General Secretary with the various charitable organizations of Savannah and the facts herein set forth. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 367 Is it not a valuable asset to the philanthropic organizations of Savannah to have a body of directors of this class eager to give them advice, sympathy and co-operation whenever any one of them may wish to take advantage of the offer ? No general canvas for funds was made when the work started a year ago, but the Board of Directors at the first organization meeting individually guaranteed to raise the money needed and with about two hundred public-spirited men supplied sufficient funds to operate the Society for one year. It is an inspiration to note that one citizen, Mr Spencer P. Shotter, promptly contributed S 1,000 towards this administrative fund. It is believed the present report will show conclusively that the time has come when the Associated Charities should receive the unanimous and generous support of the community. A uniform amount is not asked from everyone, but let all contributors give in accordance with their means. There are at least one thousand people in Savannah who can afford a yearly subscription of five dollars. There are many others who can and will give more generously, besides the very large number of persons who could easily give from one to two dollars. There is no other society in the city pledged to give instant relief in every case of apparent need and then to followup this initial assistance by systematic effort to ascertain and remove the cause of that need. The Associated Charities stands in this relation to the citizens and charities of Savannah, many of whom have given the heartiest co-operation during the year and all of whom look to us to give intelligent and painstaking service. When you read the simple, condensed statistics attached, try to realize what it means to help in one year, seven hundred and thirty cases of distress, involving eighteen hundred and sixty-nine people. Picture this mass of suffering humanity :JOX MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT in one group. Consider the kind of help given to them; not unthinking payments of money only temporarily serviceable, but careful, sympathetic work to find the cause of their troubles; to hunt up a remedy for effecting the right cure and to apply it. Any person who will study, think about, investigate and cure five cases as thoroughly as the .Associated Charities endeavors to do, will fully realize the amount of work required. From the "Reported by" list, it may be seen how every class has availed itself of the trained help we have tried to give; church officials, teachers, physicians, the police force, hospitals, the city and county, charitable organizations and business firms. Every individual case referred by them to us has had painstaking investigation and skilled thought bestowed upon it so that timely help and proper advice could be used to cure the trouble as far as possible. Nineteen hundred and seventy-six individuals have called at the office, almost every one of them helping or being helped in some way, and the resultant uplifting, due to the thirteen hundred and ninety-four personal visits, has been of incalculable value. Before the two hundred and seven individuals and the fourteen churches gave the help noted, the General Secretary laid before them full information about every case and they knew t he aid they gave was good. "Transportation" does not mean merely the passing on of the recipient to a neighboring city to beg his way again but does mean sending the individual to a home, a relative, a job of work, or to some particular place where he could be properly cared for. In other words, he has been helped instead of passed on. Securing employment for thirty-six people is no small task, but it is worth the trouble and time it takes. Think of what it means to them. There is no form of charity so valuable as personal service MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT and no form so abused and likely to be pernicious as money given, without knowledge. After reading the above, will you not make and carry out the following resolutions: "I shall ask the Associated Charities to assist me in helping in this new way those I sincerely wish to really help." "I shall make myself of much greater service to my fellow creatures by enlisting this skilled and willing aid." "I shall combat the charge that the cost of this personal help is, 'the cost of giving away a dollar.' " "I believe that when a physician receives ten dollars for curing a patient, it would be stupid to say that the fifty-cent bottle of medicine has cost ten dollars and fifty cents." During 191 1 we must have more money for relief and for .trained social service, if we would maintain the high standard of charity work which our city's reputation for kindness and intelligence deserves. We, therefore, urge that every reader of this report, who has not already done so, send promptly an adequate subscription to the treasurer, Mr, Geo. J. Mills. The general secretary, Miss Helen B. Pendleton, will supply additional copies of the report to all w"ho may desire them. GEO. J. BALDWIN President, The Associated Charities of Savannah, Ga. January 1,1011. 370 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES History of the Movement. Why and How the Associated Charities was Started. Since 1738, when George Whitefield began his famous work of founding Bethesda, "The House of Mercy" for orphan children, the people of Savannah have given themselves and their money freely to the poor and afflicted. It is not surprising, therefore, that in the century and a half following the settlement of Oglethorpe's colony there should have sprung up a multiplicity of philanthropic societies, many of them highly organized religious charities and possessing in themselves excellent features of modern charity organization work. There is probably to-day more visiting among the poor by the well-to-do classes in the literal following of religiousteaching than in any modern city of its size. This is one of the cherished traditions of a place that was founded in the spirit of benevolence; a goodly heritage from the time when the wholesome ideals of the smaller city made deeds of charity easy and natural. It was easy to help people when everybody knew everybody else in Savannah; knew them as employes, neighbors, friends and fellow church members, all having duties and pleasures in common. For it is only out of such knowledge, complete and sympathetic, that the help which relieves and cures can come. But in the last twenty years. Savannah has changed from a town to a city, her wealth and poverty have both increased amazingly, and with her growth and modern industrial and MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 371 commercial interests, the old neighborhood charity has been made forever impossible. Gradually the people began to realize this, and to see that the relief of distress cannot be carried on adequately by many different agencies working independently of each other and operating, many of them, only for the winter months, when food and fuel is dealt out with no organized effort made to prevent the recurrence of the need. They began to see that some central agency was necessary to prevent the overlapping and overlooking inevitable when cities grow and charities multiply. As long ago as 1893, a beginning in registration was made when the Louisa Porter Home started to keep records of its beneficiaries. i And in November, 1897, at a mass meeting of citizens a Board of Associated Charities was formed consisting of fifteen members, with a constitution and by-laws, and the Mayor of the city, ministers and other prominent citizens as officers. Several men connected with this first effort are supporters of the present movement. In January, 1898, an agent was employed at $75.00 a month, and an office opened on the corner of Whitaker and Hull Streets. Coming into existence before the days when training for social service was held to be indispensable, this enterprise only lived a year, but its formation is significant as showing that the seed of organized charity was beginning to germinate in Southern hearts and minds, and would sooner or later equal the sturdy growth of similar movements in the North and West. Two other efforts to establish an Associated Charities failed, the last one expiring in the Spring of HX)7, after a MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT well-attended meeting with representative citizens present \vhen the work was put in the hands of the Salvation Army. Finally, through what seemed an indirect means to the end. the attention of a number of Savannah women became focussed on the problem as an outcome of the tuberculosis campaign begun in Savannah in the early summer of 1909. The National Tuberculosis Exhibition was brought to Savannah at the instance of Dr. W. S. Wilson. Dr. J. A. Crowther and Dr. Martin Cooley. An active committee of women under the name of the "Committee on Charities and Health" was also organized at this time under the leadership of Mrs. Geo. J. Baldwin to consider the best way of fighting tuberculosis. Associated with Mrs. Baldwin were Mrs. J. S. Howkins, Mrs. George W. Owens, Mrs. J. P. Mendes, Miss Annie Goette, Mrs. Max WolfT, Mrs. L. W. Wortsman, Mrs. Henry C. Cunningham. Mrs. Frank Chisholm, Mrs. H. B. Skeele, Miss Phoebe H. Elliott, Mrs. F. C. Wallis, Mrs. Frank B. Screven. Mrs. A. R. Lawton,Mrs. B. F. Bullard, Mrs. Joseph Hilton, Mrs Mayhew Cunningham and others. Through talks with Mr. Routzahn, who had charge of the exhibition, they began more than ever to realize that the tuberculosis campaign was but one aspect of a large community problem, which could be effectively met only by organized effort. Learning that the Russell Sage Foundation carried on as pait of its work a Department for the Extension of Organized Charity in the United States, they entered into correspondence with this Department, and at their request the Field Secretary, Mr. Francis H..McLean, carne to Savannah and made several public addresses by which the sympathy of business men, clergy and members of charitable organizations was enlisted. A Board of Directors was formed of some of the most prom- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT inent business and professional men, and on the loth of November, Mr. Geo. J. Baldwin was elected President of the Society. Through the courtesy of the Mayor and City Council an office was obtained in the City Hall and the present General Secretary was placed in charge January I, 1910. On a Firm Basis at Last In completing its first year of service to the charitable citizens and organizations who have called upon it with such frequency as to overwhelm the secretary and her assistants at times, and service to the families and individuals for whom and with whom it has worked to secure adequate and permanent relief, the question naturally arises in the minds of those interested: Has the Associated Charities movement at last taken root and come to stay? This question is answered in the pages of our First Annual Report. The First Difficult Months It has been well said that no movement of this sort, either spontaneous or nurtured, will ever be successful, unless it has an active, interested and enthusiastic band of partisans behind it. *"It is necessary to have not simply the perfunctory, intellectual approval of a number of influential people, but their conviction and determination to stand by it and promote its welfare by every possible means. "With the actual commencement of work comes the really troublesome time and many a shipwreck. "To begin with, nothing made by man is perfect. What a constitution describes as the object of a society's organiz- *F. R. McLean, "Charity Organizer in Smaller Cities." :>74 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT ation and what the society can actually accomplish, especially during the first two years of its existence, are two very different things. "Moreover, what many people think are the objects of a society's existence and what those objects really are , are also two very different things. "During these first difficult months it will often appear to the harassed ones directing affairs, that both friends and foes are doing their best to bring about a failure; foes by putting the society to all sorts of tests; friends by becoming impatient when it does not accomplish things ovef night and also by asking it to accomplish the impossible." The Associated Charities has been tried and put to the test in all of these ways during its first year; but can say with confidence that the experimental period is over and that it is surely winning wider support and awakening increasing sympathy and understanding. This is chiefly because of the active, interested work of a majority of the Board of Directors, and of the earnest women mentioned above. The Board of Directors has met monthly with the exception of the two summer months, with an average attendance of fifteen, the President and members of the Executive Committee overlooking the work in the interim. These men and women are prepared to give further active and loyal support and to see that the Society becomes more and more a useful and indispensable factor in the philanthropic work of the city. A Review of the Field It is fitting, therefore, that we should review briefly the significant points covered by the year's work, and note the pressing needs for future dealing with charitable problems. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 375 The Problem of Mendicancy Savannah has long been known as a paradise for beggars; the rover from the North, especially the crippled itinerant peddler stopping here on his way to Florida, reaps a large bounty from the unquestioning liberality of our citizens. Paupers from adjoining or far away counties are dumped into the city by officials of other towns without discrimination. A woman who applied for transportation to a county in Middle Georgia said: "If I don't get the money here, I'll just keep on beggin' till I do." House to house begging by members of degenerate resident white families is common. Up to the time of the formation of the Associated Charities the tender-hearted citizen was at a loss to know what to do. A homeless person or resident family really destitute in Savannah was actually forced to beg, as there was no organization to look after such cases. To-day the citizen of Savannah can rest upon the comfortable assurance that no human being in the city in real need will suffer from want of food if referred to this Society. In twelve months the Associated Charities has furnished 323 meals to homeless peoplemen and women of all sorts and conditions, from the drunken criminal just off the County Farm, to the runaway lad who needed firm and kindly investi- , gation and treatment that would restore him to his home; the society has also helped instantly all resident families found to be in need. Through the wise action of Mayor Tiedeman in refusing to grant licenses, itinerant crippled peddlers no longer infest the business part of the city and the white street beggars are far less numerous than formerly. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT The Police Department has given cordial and helpful co-operation and the Society is urging citizens to refer all street beggars to the office in the City Hall, cards for referring such applicants being furnished upon request. A Committee on Homeless Men is in charge of this question of mendicancy, with Col. G. A. Gordon, chairman, and Mr. H. M. Johnson and Mr. Vivian Myers, studying the problem which is a National one. Old Age The homes for the aged in Savannah are excellent and apparently ample, but there remains a class of decrepit derelicts of humanity unfit for these homes, who need constant alleviating and medical treatment, and for whom, in the absence of a county infirmary or almshouse, there is absolutely no provision. The hopeless morphine and cocaine eater, the aged moral pervert, the habitual drunkard over sixty years of age, the victim of hopeless and chronic disease which makes him a horror to everyone with whom he comes in contact, all of these unfortunates need permanent, repressive, but expert and kindly care in an institution. For some of them the hospitals provide, but often intermittently and unwillingly, as they are not proper hospital cases. Others wander from place to place, turned out of one lodging after another, existing as best they can. As to these unfortunates the Society should call attention to their woes and their wants until suitable provision is made for them, seeking meanwhile the co-operation of all who will give it, to provide immediate help. The Problem of the Widow and the Deserted Wife An examination of our records shows that we have had appeals from 108 widows and 42 deserted wives. Many of MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 377 these women are young, with the burden of wage-earning as well as home-making forced upon them. Naturally they cannot perform the father's work and the mother's at the same time, and consequently we have the spectacle of mothers being obliged to neglect their children in order to support them. The existence of these women, all of whom are unskilled in any trade, is most precarious. It is difficult to discover how they manage to live. Casual sewing supplemented by casual charity seems to be the usual means of livelihood. Among this group of widows and deserted women are many pitiful old creatures now entirely dependent. Neglected and deserted in their youth, we can see in them the forecast of what these younger women will be in the years to come if sane, social service does not step in with adequate relief and treatment. We do not know how many of their husbands died of preventable diseases. And we cannot in a few months change the spirit of the deserting husband nor enforce or alter the laws concerning him, but if the case of every deserted wife and every widow is thoroughly investigated, and if, through the co-operation of societies and individuals, we can bring some of these deserting men to book and insist that they shall support their families, and if we can procure funds for adequate and continued relief of many self-respecting widows now forced to put their children into institutions, we shall be helping to bring about the day when adequate relief and wise oversight shall give these fatherless children a chance to grow into useful citizenship. At the Case Committee Meetings, members are already interested in raising pensions for several widows. Delinquent, Defective and Neglected Children Four or five orphanages exceptionally well managed meet the usual need for such homes, but for the delinquent and defective child there is no provision. 378 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT How One Child Was Saved In September, during the absence of the Judge of the Ordinary's Court, a boy of ten years was arrested on a lunacy warrant, tried for putting poison in his father's and stepmother's food, and adjudged a fit and proper subject for the State Hospital for the Insane at Milledgeville, spending a week in jail before being transferred there. Just before his arrest the Associated Charities had been asked to investigate the circumstances, and discovered that the child was an unusually bright boy who had been goaded into revenge by the ill-treatment of his father in whose care he had been but a short while, having been brought up by his grandmother in New Jersey. Judge McAlpin upon his return took up the matter, and through correspondence with the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, this little fellow was transferred from the State Sanitarium to a relative in Philadelphia, who is able and willing to care for him. This Story Illustrates First. The necessity of investigating cases of juvenile delinquency so that the responsibility shall fall upon the proper shoulders, and the right thing shall be done in each case. If this child had not been sent to relatives he would have been forced to remain among the distressing colony of 3,200 mentally unbalanced human beings at Milledgeville, and no matter how kindly the care given him, would have had no chance for proper development. Second. The crying need in Savannah for a detention home where such cases can be studied and placed pending their trial. This boy was sent to jail, and his cell companion was a man sentenced for larcenv. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT JJ79 Under different circumstances a boy of this type would have been brought before the recently established Juvenile Court, which is heavily handicapped in its work by lack of . facilities for handling such children. Another duty of the Society is to bring before the public facts concerning the feeble-minded children brought to our attention until the State provides a training school for them. The Orphan and Neglected Child Confronted also withTrequests to investigate the cases of orphaned and neglected children the Associated Charities workers have met with the most cordial co-operation and advice from the Judge of the Ordinary's Court, and from practically all of the children's institutions in Savannah. The lack of a Children's Aid Society, however, which would place many of the forlorn waifs brought to our attention in good homes under expert supervision, is keenly felt. The Child in the Family But one of the main tasks of organized charity is to point out the often ignored truth, that, after all, the welfare of most of the children reported as needing charitable care be separated from the rest of the family. If the home is a real one, the thing to strive for is to keep the children in it, and to see that they have a chance in lifea chance for health, recreation, education, employment and spiritual development. How this may be accomplished through the working together of different agencies is shown by an illustration of one family's need: An Illustration of One Family's Need An exceptionally attractive family of children have for a number of years been the recipients of the bounty of wellto-do ^residents in whose neighborhood they live. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT One little girl is particularly persistent in begging. When the family larder is supplied for the asking, why should parents be thrifty? These are not, though the man usually has regular work. The mother is slatternly and keeps a filthy house besides. Lately, however, a new interest has come into their'lives, awakened in the family through one of the children's going to one of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergartens. The little girl who begs has been asked to join a club, and the mother also; both of these clubs being a part of the kindergarten movement. For the first time this woman is coming in contact with other women in her own walk in life, and receiving the uplifting stimulus of friendly association instead of the destroying one of philanthropic patronage. The Associated Charities workers are trying to stop the begging and the indiscriminate alms poured out upon this family, and discovering that one of the children is sickly, asked the tuberculosis nurse to visit her. Progress is reported at the Case Committee Meetings. It will take the persistent friendly visiting to gain results here, for no one agency can successfully deal with a family problem like this. But if social workers, nurses, teachers, and other volunteers interested will get together, compare notes and work together, the sickly baby, the delicate child, the children at school and kindergarten, the boys at work and the parents too. will all be helped to a larger and more self-respecting life. Sickness From the first the Society has received friendly help and MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 381 advice from the members of the Health Department in the City Hall, and from the City Physicians. In many instances also, specialists have given a great deal of time and have taken much pains in treating cases of eye, ear and throat diseases. Even with this efficient work, however, there remains an immense work to be done in the way of hygienic education and preventive measures. Jn twelve months the Society has visited 205 familes in which there was sickness other than consumption, dealing at the same time with 55 cases of tuberculosis and with .'>2 cases of suspected tuberculosis. Here is where the visiting nurse, with her skillful and sympathetic ministration, becomes a neccessity in the poor home. The Mary Maclean Circle of The King's Daughters have for some years supported a visiting nurse for the poor, when a second visiting nurse was put in the field for five years under a private trust fund, known as the Parsons' Fund, under the supervision of Mrs. T. P. Waring. Soon after the opening of the Associated Charities' office the city was districted and one nurse placed on the West, the other assigned to the East; both nurses using the Associated Charities' office a.s headquarters. In the spring the Margaret Bottome Circle of the King's Daughters put a tuberculosis nurse in the field, and all three nurses are now working in co-operation with the Society. A Tuberculosis Hospital Dr. Walter S. Wilson, Mr. B. H. Levy, Dr. Craig Barrow, Mr. Joseph F. Gray, Mr. F. W. Clarke and Mr. A. B. Moore form the committee interested in the erection of a hospital for advanced cases of tuberculosis, both white and colored, and MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT with the recent addition of several other strong members, including the President of the Georgia Medical Society of Chatham County, there is prospect of a successful start in this direction before long. Red Cross Christmas Seals In November 1909 the Committee of which Mrs. Geo. J. Baldwin was chairman, carried on an active campaign for the sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals: realizing, after all expenses were met, $543.83. Organizing again under the name of the Committee on Health and Sanitation, this committee has become a co-partner with the Tuberculosis Committee of the Board of Directors of the Society, and is again doing active work in selling the Christmas Seals with even greater success than last year. The Problem of the Negro The fate of the white sufferer from tuberclosis seems inextricably linked to that of the consumptive negro. The majority of the negro servants sleep in their own homes, do laundry work there, go back and fourth from these homes into the homes of the white people where they nurse the babies, cook the food, make the beds, and if they are suffering from tuberculosis and other contagious diseases, are a menace to both races. We should be unfaithful upholders of the civic good if we did not realize that before very long this Society should take active steps, not only in the question and cure of tuberculosis among the negroes, but should study the whole problem of poverty and ignorance presented by nearly half of our population. That this is largely a question of disease, ignorance and overcrowded and unsanitary dwellings is shown in MAYORS ANNUAL REPORT 383 the high death rate from tuberculosis and the frightful mortality of the negro child. One additional problem of the negro race to which it would be well to call attention, is the very large number of adult, ablebodied, male negroes attracted to Savannah by and living on the earings and the food supplied by family servants who support the men in idleness. We have not yet attempted to touch the problem of the pitiful old negroes who beg upon the streets, or the waifs and strays of the race growing up in ignorance and wretchedness and crime. Many of them doubtless could be taken care of by their own relatives who possibly share the profits of their begging, but in the absence of an almshouse and facilities for proper investigation, no attempt can yet be made to weed out these from the general mass of miserable creatures who are regular Saturday beggars in the business section, and who choose other days of the week for their appeals to householders. But here, too, we can point to hopeful signs. A club composed of the most intelligent colored people of the city has expressed a willingness to co-operate in helping colored cases, and at the second meeting addressed by the General Secretary, December llth, organized an Anti-Tuberculosis Society. The Summing Up of the Whole Hatter Such then, has been the first year's work of the Associated Charities. The element of success in it lies entirely in team-work, the loyal pulling together, shoulder to shoulder, of those 384 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT genuinely interested in their unfortunate fellow-rnen and unselfishly determinded to help them. In the possibility of greater development of this spirit lies the whole future of organized charity in this city. Respectfully submitted, HELEX B. PENDLETON, Secretary. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 385 List of Subscribers, 1910 Adams, S. B............................................. .......................$ 25.00 Adler, Leopold.___....................................................... 25.00 Alexander, A. L..___................................................... 10.00 Anderson, J. R..____.................................................. 5.00 Armstrong, Geo. F......................................................... 5.00 Bacon, H. H.._______.._....................................... 10.00 Baker, Marcus S............................................................ 10.00 Baldwin, Geo. H..__~...................................................... 10.00 Baldwin, Geo. J.____................................................ 100.00 Balfour Hardware Co__............................................... 5.00 Barnard, James M..____......................................... 5.00 Barrow, Craig.__.......~.............................................. 5.00 Bell, Charles G....___.................................................... 10.00 BeU, Edward W..____...................... ... .. ... .......... 10.00 Belsinger, Samuel.___................................................. 5.00 Benedictine Fathers.___........................... ................ 10.00 Beytagh, Robt. M..__.......................... ...................... 5.00 Bloodworth, Frank D..___........................................... 5.00 Blun, Henry............ ................................................ 5.00 Bourne, O. T.._.........~........., ................................ 5.00 Brazell, Spencer P..___............................................... 2.00 Brennan, Patrick.-........................................................ 5.00 Bruen, H. H..___._......_.........................._.............. 5.00 Bryson, T. A................................................................. 5.00 BuUard, B. F.._. ........................................................ 25.00 Butler, G. Reuben................................ .......................... 5.00 Butler, John G..___...................................................... 5.00 Butler, Robt. M..___..................................................... 25.00 Byck, M. S. & D. A....................................................... 10.00 Cafiero, Ercole.___.._.................................................... 5.00 Calhoun, John A..__.~...................................................... 5.00 Cann, J. F..____........................................................... 10.00 Canty, John F..__............................................................. 5.00 Carmicael, A. W........................................................... 10.00 Carson, Gordon C............................................................ 5.00 13 386 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Carson, J. A. G.................................:............................... 25.00 Carson, J. A. G., Jr....__............................................... 5.00 Carswell, John D..__................................................... 10.00 Carter, Barren...___..................................................... 10.00 Cash, (J. F., Jr.)............................................................ 10.00 Cassels, A. Gordon._..................................................... 5.00 Chesnut, J. B.._..__............-...................................... 5.00 Citizens & Southern Bank___................................. 25.00 Clay, J. Stark.................................................................... 5.00 Clay, Sam'1. L.._.............................................................. 5.00 Cohen's Sons, J. T..___.......................................... .. 5.00 Commercial Lithographing & Printing Co......_....... .. 5.00 Coney, Mrs. Walter.. ...................................................... 10.00 Coney, Walter E..__.....-...~.~......~...........~.....~.............. 10.00 Coney, Wilbur M.__.._................................................... 5.00 Conida, Paul..-.......--...-.-.-.-.-.-.......-....-.... 5.00 Conners, Daniel__..___................................................ 5.00 Crane, Horace A.._........................................................ 10.00 Cunningham, Henry C_................................... 10.00 Cunningham, Mrs. H. C.._........................................... 10.00 Cunningham, T. Mayhew.............................................. 10.00 Cunningham, Wayne.................................................. 5.00 Davis, W. V..__........................................................... 10.00 DeLoach, Charles J..___............................................... 5.00 Demmond, Edward K..................................................... 5.00 Donohue, Hugh............................................................... 5.00 Doyle, Estate M. J.._...................................................... 5.00 Doyle, J. A...._............................................................. 2.00 Driscoll, J. .._......-..-.-....--..-..-..-.-.-......................... 5.00 Dryfus, M..__................................................................. 5.00 Eckstein & Co., Gustave.__......................................... 10.00 Ehrlicher, N. B.._...-..-...-......._................................ 5.00 Elliott, W. H.._............................................................ 5.00 Effis, Charles.__.......................................................... 5.00 Ensel & Vinson.__.................................... .................. 5.00 Entelmann, J. H. H..__................. ............................. 10.00 Epstein, Bro. & Co., I..................................................... 25.00 Falk, David B..__........................................................... 5.00 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 387 Flannery, John............... 25.00 Frank, I. ML................................................. 5.00 Freeman, Davis.................. 10.00 Fulton, Chas. F......_...... .......................................... 5.00 Garden, F. W............................................................... 10.00 Geil & Quint..._................................................................. 5.00 Gibbs, Charles M...._:................................................... 5.00 Gilbert, Charles M.._............-..................... 5.00 Globe Shoe Store..................................................... 5.00 Golden, John W.._._..................................................... 5.00 Gordon, Beirne............................................................ 25.00 Gordon, G. A................................................................ 25.00 Gordon, W. W.........-...-.......................................... 100.00 Granger, Harvey....._......................!..................... 35.00 Gray, Jos. F......__............................................................. 10.00 Green, Chas...-.......-......................... 5.00 Guckenheimer's Sons, S.._............................................... 10.00 Hardee, Mrs. John L........_............................................... 5.00 Harden & Rourk............................................................. 5.00 Hartridge, Walter C...._.................................................. 5.00 Harty, John F........................................................... 5.00 Harty, W. J..................................................................... 5.00 Haskell, Paul T., Jr................................................ 5.00 Haslam, J. H..................................................................... 5.00 Heffernan, Jos. W............-...--.-.....-.-............... 5.00 Henken, Henry.... ........................................................... 5.00 Henken, Wm.................................................___..' 5.00 Hicks, Robt. M................................................................. 5.00 Hilton-Dodge Lumber Co............................................... 25.00 Hogan & Co., Daniel........................................... 5.00 Hoist, J. B..__............................................................... 25.00 Hub Clothing-Co.._..........................___......... 5.00 HuU, A. B.._.._____........................................................... 25.00 Hull, Joseph.........-... 25.00 Hunter, Pearce & Battey...- ........................... 25.00 Inglesby, Charles........ 5.00 Jackson & Gutman....._.._.......................................... 5.00 Jaudon, W. A..__.._..................................................... 5.00 388 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Johnson, Henry M..____............................................ 5.00 Johnson, H. Wylly.___............................................. - 10.00 Johnston, F. E..___.................................................... 5.00 Jolles, H. R...............-............................. 5.00 Karow, Edward................................................................ 25.00 Karsner, W. F.._........................................................... 5.00 Kavanaugh, M. J..____...................._....................... 5.00 Kayton, Herbert L.._.................................................. 5.00 Kehoe, William.___..................................................... 5.00 Kelly, Joseph E..___..................................................... 5.00 Kirby & Co., F. M..__................................................... 5.00 Kollock, Miss J. J..__..-..-........-..... 5.00 Krenson, W. D..____................................................. 5.00 Krenson, Fred'k..-...._-............................ 5.00 Lane, Mills B.._.......-............................ 100.00 Lang & Co., W. M..___.........................................._ 25.00 Lang, Nicholas........................................................ 10.00 Lattimore, William.......-.............................................. 5.00 Lawton, A. R..___...................................................... 10.00 LeHardy, L. M.-.........---..-..-..... ......................... 5.00 Lehwald & Co., A. J..__.............................................. 5.00 Levy, Bros. & Co., B. H................................................. 25.00 Lindsay& Morgan_____.... ....... .......................... 10.00 Little, J. C.._................ ............................................... 5.00 Livingston, H. H____................................ 5.00 Lovell, R. P....--.....--......... 5.00 Lyons, John_____...................................................... 5.00 Mackall, W. W..____................................................... 25.00 Maggione & Co_____................................................... 5.00 McAlpin, Henry._...................................................___ 50.00 McCauley, W. F_____................................................ 5.00 McCormick, WiUiam......................................................... 5.00 McGrath, James.--........ ............................................. 5.00 Mclntosh, Olin T..___................................................. 5.00 McMfflan, T. H.............-.--................___... 10.00 McNeil, Lawrence.___..........._.... 5.00 Meinhard, Henry S.._............................................. 5.00 Mendel, Carl..........................................-. 25.00 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 389 Mercer, Geo. A.._.._....................................................... 10.00 Merkle, A. J.._............................................................... 5.00 Merritt, W. C.._................................................................. 5.00 Mills, Geo. J......__...-...--.............___........................ 10.00 Minis, Abram.................................................................... 5.00 Motte, J. W............... ...................................................... 25.00 Mustin, A. F. K.._......_................................. ................. 5.00 Myers, J. F. C.........................................-.,... 25.00 Myers, Sigo.................................................................. 10.00 Nash, E. S.................................................................... 50.00 Nash, J. Cheshire.......................................................... 5.00 Neal-Blun Co.._............................................................. 5.00 Neville, Charles...-........................-.......................-.. 5.00 Nichols, A. S................................................... 5.00 Nugent, Thomas...__............................................... 5.00 O'Byrne, M. A..__......................................................... 25.00 O'Connor, Edward F.......................................... 5.00 O'Hara, A. J.................................................................... 5.00 O'Leary, M. J......__..__................................................. 5.00 O'Neill, J. J.._...................................-........___ 5.00 Osborn-Marlow Co.._..___............................................. 5.00 Paulsen, Jacob.................................................................. 15.00 Rauers, J. J.._................................................................ 15.00 Reber, A. Guy...___.................................................... 5.00 Register, J. .._..________....................................... 5.00 Richards, Rufus G...................................................... 5.00 Richter, Geo. H....__..................................................... 10.00 Rogers, James M....__......................................... .. .. .. 25.00 Rogers, Jesse T.._............................................................. 10.00 Rosenheim Shoe Co., Jos.._........................................ 10.00 Ross, Samuel.-..__........................................................ 10.00 Rouke, John._................................................................... 5.00 Rowe, A. B...._................:............................................ 5.00 Schadewell, Rev. Father G. X....................................... 5.00 Schroeder, E. A. M.._................................................. 5.00 Schroeder, H. A..___................................................... 10.00 Schwab's Sons, M.._......................................................... 5.00 Schwarz, J. C...._.._........................................................... 5.00 390 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Seabrook, W. E.._........____......................................... 5.00 Seay, J. W......................................................................... 5.00 Semmes, Raphael T......................................................... 10.00 Shotter, S. P...............:..................................................... 1,000.00 Shruptrine, James T...._............................................... 10.00 Skeele, H. B.._.._.._........................................................... 10.00 Smart, H. P....__............................................................... 10.00 Solomon, A. Perry..._....................................................... 5.00 Southern Cotton Oil Co.._............................................... 100.00 Sperry, Marcy L............................................................... 10.00 Stakely, F. M..................................................................... 5.00 Stevens, H. D................................................................. 15.00 Storer, Frank W............................................................... 5.00 Strous, J. H.._................................................................... 5.00 Theus, S. ......__............................................................... 5.00 Thomas, D. R................................................................... 5.00 Thomas, Spencer S..__..................................................... 5.00 Thomson, Thos. F....__.._................................................. 10.00 Tiedeman, Geo. W........................................................... 25.00 Trosdal, E. S.._;................................................................ 10.00 Van Keuren, R................................................................. 5.00 Wessels, Fred, Jr....__................................................... 25.00 West, J. Thos.._.._......................................................... 5.00 West, T. Newell............-.-........................................ 5.00 Wever, H.._....................................................................... 25.00 Whiteman, Joseph W.._.............................................. 5.00 Wilder, W. W................................................................... 5.00 Williamson, W. W....__.._..................................... 10.00 Wilson, H. E.._................................................................. 5.00 Wilson, Walter S..__..__................................................... 5.00 Winburn, W. A..__........................................................... 25.00 Wright, A. P..................................................................... 5.00 Young, L. G..........-...--...-....-...-..-.-......-.-.-.-..... 5.00 $3,414.00 I MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 391 General Relief Aid Society of First Baptist Church. Alexander, General E. P. Baldwin, Mrs. Geo. J. Barnard, Mr. James M. Bryson, Mr. T. A. Bullard, Mrs. B. F. Byke, M. S. & D. A. Cavanaugh, Mrs. J. H, Charlton, Robert Christian Church Christ P. E. Church Coleman, Charles Elliot Society, Bishop Falk, David B. First Baptist Church Golden Rule Circle, The King's Daughters Gordon, Col. G. A. Guyer, C. L. H. G. H. (Hebrew Benevolent Association) Haskell, Mrs. Paul T. Hebrew Women's Aid Society Hull, Mr. Joseph Hull, Mrs. George Johnson, Paul Kate Hall Circle, The King's Daughters Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Association Lawton, Col. A. R. . Leaken, William R. Mayor's Office Mills, Mrs. George J. Murphy, J. L. Myers, Vivian Nash, Mrs. E. S. Paulding, J. K. (New York) Philadelphia Society for Organized Charity Robertson, Gustave Rosenheim, Herman Ruffin, A. J. Ryan, P. Saussy, Clement Simians, Mrs. Eldred Small's Cash Grocery Southside Baptist Church Strous, J. H. St. Paul's P. E. Church Taggart, John P. Taylor, Ernest Theus, S. E. Varnadoe, Mrs. S. L. Willing Workers Circle, The King's Daughters Wilson, Mrs. W. L. Total sum contributed for relief._...._.....................$545.94 Tuberculosis Fund Adler, Mrs. Leopold Anderson, Mrs. J. R. Baker, J. O. Baldwin, Mrs. Geo. J. Bayles, A. S. Blackman, W. C. Bourne Lumber Co. Butler.Presbyterian Ch. (Col.) 392 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Byck, Mrs. D. A. Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Charlton, Mrs. T. J., Sr. Chisholm, Mrs. Frank M. Christ P. E. Church Cornwell, Mrs. Frank H. Cosens, Mrs. Geo. A. Council of Jewish Women Cunningham, Miss Helena H. Cunningham, Miss Jean McD. Baffin, Mrs. WiEiam S. DeWald, Mrs. N. Duffy Street Baptist Church Elliott Society, Bishop Erichson, J. M. Falk, Mrs. David B. Falk, David B. . First Congregational Church (Col.) First Presbyterian Church Fourth Baptist Church Georgia Medical Society of Chatham County Garrard, Mrs. William German Club of Savannah Gordon, G. A. Gordon, Mrs. G. A. Guerard, Mrs. J. R. Haskell, Mrs. Louis W. Health and Sanitation Committee of The Associated Charities Hirsch, Mrs. Henry Hull, W. Hope Independent Presbyterian Church Jones, Miss Lily Noble Kollock, Miss J. J. Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Association Margaret Bottome Circle, The King's Daughters Minis, Mrs. Abram Minis, Mrs. Isaac Myers, Miss Henrietta Nash, Mrs. E. S. O'Brine, Mrs. W. J. Phillips, The Misses Prichard, G. Barnard Smith, Mrs. A. E. Smith, Mrs. J. G. Southside Baptist Church St. Paul's Lutheran Church St. Stephen's P. E. Church (Col.) Taylor, Joseph D. Tew, Miss Katherine Trinity M. E. Church Wesley Monumental Church Wescott, Mrs. E. C. Weston & Co. Wilder, Mrs. J. J. Wilson, Mrs. W. L. Wood, Mrs. Henry Woodbridge, Miss Caroline L. Total sum received for Tuberculosis.................$767.01 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 393 Coal, Wood, Clothing, Miscellaneous Ambrose, Miss Clifford Anderson, Mrs. J. R. Brennan, Mrs. P. . Baldwin, Mrs. Geo. J. Clark, Mrs. R. G. Collat, Mrs. I. Cunningham, Mrs. Wayne Feely, William First Baptist Church Garrard, Mrs. William Gordon, Mrs. G. A. Harrison, Mrs. W. Gordon Heller, Miss Dora Hirsch, Mrs. Solomon Hunter, Mrs. John Heard Kirby Planing Mill (Thomasville, Ga.) Lawton, Mrs. A. R. Nash, Mrs. E. S. O'Brien, Mrs. W. J. Pinkussohn, Mrs. J. Ray, W. W. Robertson, Mrs, J. G. Rosenheim Shoe Co. Savannah Woodware Co. Screven, Master Thomas Southern Cotton Oil Co. Stephens, Mrs. W. B. Strong, Mrs. Ormond B. Sullivan, Mrs. J. F. Wright, Mrs. Edward A. Co. 13A STATISTICS OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA ITS TRADE AND COMMERCE FOR THE YEAR 1910 WITH COMPARATIVE TABLES OF PREVIOUS YEARS COMPILED BY NEYLE COLQUITT Secretary to the Myor BANK CLEARINGS AT SAVANNAH FOR FIFTEEN YEARS March................... ... April........................ Ka.y...:....... .............. June. .__..__...___..__._..._ Julv............. ............ October. _ .................. Total... ................. 1910 $ 20,333.994 63 17,951,037 50 17,023.992 44 16,501.046 14 16821,384 50 15.982.140 78 16,739,234 47 15,635,617 44 28,546,919 03 37,729,288 55 33,378,774 50 35,351,031 08 $'^71 994 461 06 1909 $ 19,115,000 32 14,585.606 77 13,716,264 40 16.479.392 77 14.071,988 53 11,903,491 07 11,994,546 82 14,238,533 69 37,775,113 01 25,030,763 12 26,552,650 98 ojn 997 7 $299,814 oo oo. 49ftft A^KI 09 4A9 $304,334 0 O07 *OC1 AAQ Id. 1 ftl $ 4Q A44 18 099 $ 56,468 Id. 0.0/7 $ 92,806 May 19 426 5 AAQ 2,663 2 009 ftftl 43,729 997 OA-J 12,120 $ 50,795 COu CAQ 1 =Q Q9A Q ftfto $ 43.767 9A TEA $122,779 09 ACJ. *ino AOO 22,052 $ AO AQZ* June 544 OQ AAJ, 9,646 AOQ 2 f\ 1 R 40,708 *OO1 $21 A A.7 Qfil 1 QA. A9^ A Q 9ft A *i =Q OAQ 27,111 ci^in ^90 09 O9fi 104 0524 1O 1O1 $ 7fi OA4 3 444 $ 9,721 July 97 1JM 15,951 1,108 2 9QO OCQ OfiQ Aftl 51,274 *1 QJ, OfkQ QA TAfl *1 QC *>OO C4 A4A $267,769 0*7 7QO $166,010 48,055 *1 *7A flAC 9 QO1 $ 28,130 August on 1 ne 8 AKT 7,599 no OQ 1 $208,010 49 ft^ft 41 77 Q49 71 ft^7 *on7 4^4 ei 0*70 1 $238,270 oc 7 co *OQA 91 Q on 91 1 * 74 Qftft 1Q 7fiQ $ 51,569 September 3 AOC 559 Q HR4 17 9*\4 7,684 a QK(\ 4 40*7 4Q **ft^ *I>QQ nt 9 62,075 9AC AOA m QOQ *OOfi Of O 4Q 47 904 Ar\c 75,780 *OQO QQ9 80,786 4040 O*JQ . 41,595 $114,281 October 1,061 184. 4,195 q 700 8 f\AQ 9 9^O 25,506 $165,432 K.1 *7QQ 91 o 97Q 40 940 $143,507 38,212 1 KQ O94 OC Qf)7 $292,363 98 984 1 .8 ftS4l 57,050 $157,834 November 362 OA O.AQ 5 999 9,265 51,158 $317,115 91,057 40Q 9R4 71 fifift *9f*7 77*^ BJ4 QC4 491 1 4.. 4O 9^11 *17fi 4Q9 71 Q9*? ftQO K O K1 43,610 $130,705 December 8,052 i Q 497 14,121 4,362 i ^ ^^a At Of\A $354,118 42,615 *i7ft ^n^ Q7 O^Q *oio HOA 70 400 9 et4 7ft Q OQ Q1 O $407,513 57,423 4904 499 56,244 41ft7 A/11 Total 1910 24,202 18,620 2,115 919 Q**Q 150,423 36,318 85,734 37,713 8,049 259 881 e-7Q noj. $3,049,149 Total 1909 17,430 25,537 2,828 24,824 272 m A7o 1 4Q inn 41,818 58,313 36,364 25,338 222 2,667 597,603 49 171 ftO.9 Total 1908 23,340 54.584 5,783 12,096 m Q1 ^l Oftt OQA 315 77,842 1 4ft 7Ofi 352 14,356 5,457 2,734 5,706 814,580 $2,673,286 Total 1907 50,082 5,294 24,129 1,066 2,102 161,140 m ftTQ 44,321 113,622 402 480 25,251 3,916 575,884 $2,514,552 Total 1906 10,711 30,633 7,306 63,633 2,357 138,750 195,639 1,917 29,956 86,613 513 714 10,088 4,466 3,452 586,769 $2,489,425 Total 1905 32,131 13,385 21,646 2,633 3,393 ' 12,163 117,502 176,990 2,468 13,624 62,818 2 269 534 9,579 3,746 4,915 1,439 481,685 $1,832,762 Total 1904 11,975 33,252 7,669 25,450 111,674 167,058 3,153 18,684 78,166 4,054 9,923 2,677 473,744 $1,347,984 398- B MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 399 Table of Comparative Railway Distances Portland, Ore. ____ ._ San Francisco, Cal. Omaha, Neb. ___ ___. Salt Lake City, Utah __ Kansas City, Mo... - St. Louis, Mo. ___ _._. Memphis, Tenn._ _____ Nashville, Tenn. ___ ._ Chattanooga, Tenn.____ Birmingham, Ala. _ ._ Montgomery, Ala. Atlanta, Ga.__. __ ... M t^ S *" ffl Miles 3,302 3,289 1,503 2,540 1,426 1,194 1,397 1,165 1,209 1,201 1,219 1,088 > J3 1 fc at Miles 3,220 3,188 1,402 2,439 1,310 1,054 1,156 951 995 988 1,005 874 d JS? 8" I M am Miles 3,088 3,075 1,289 2,336 1,209 932 1,022 764 727 856 896 688 *o s"K Miles 3,212 3,222 1,421 2,482 1,241 970 960 755 650 764 771 596 oj o OS c s A Miles 3,125 3,019 1,318 2,332 1,159 887 672 583 432 421 340 260 C8 CO Sj . i-p **5 5 5 HH 1 Miles 05 169 84 107 151 167 368 563 665 614 From the above table of railway distances it will be seen that St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and other centers for the distribution of food products, as well as Chatanooga, Birmingham and other important points in the mineral section of the South, are many miles nearer to Savannah than to any of the Northern seaports. The comparison in favor of the Gulf ports from some of the points named is still more favorable, but the greatly increased water mileage from ports on the Gulf Coast* to Europe or to the North Atlantic ports and the heavy marine insurance around the dangerous capes of Florida have already favored the commerce of the South Atlantic ports, and the tendency in that direction is likely to increase. *The average run from Savannah to Liverpool by sailing vessel is ten days less than from New Orleans. 400 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT AaKMments for Taxation at Savannah, Ga., for Fifteen Years \ January 1, January 1, anuary 1, fanuary 1, fanuary 1, EARS 1910---------- 1909. --------- 1908. --------- 1907--------- 1906.----.--.- 1905--------.. 1904. --------- 1903---------- 1902---------- 1901---------- 1900---------- 1899....---- - 1898---------- 1897... ------- 1896---------- 1895.---- -.-. City Real Estate $35,681,456 35,501,860 34,736,799 34,049,925 31,000,593 29,970,933 28,975,057 28,044,040 27,290,022 26,230,742 25,965,076 24,920,795 24,425,620 24,360,457 24,163,380 24,763,080 City Personalty $14,166,460 13,188,015 12,806,028 13,342,126 14,215,475 13,226,564 11,791,620 11,007,880 11,070,935 10,877,335 10,617,783 10,560,052 10,629,258 10,409,018 9,160,522 9,160,522 Totals &4Q Jld7 Qlft 48,689,875 47,542,827 47,391,051 45,216,068 41,851,342 40,766,677 39,051,920 38,360,957 37,108,077 36,582,859 35,480,847 35,054,987 34,769,475 33,323,902 33,923,602 The net city tax rate is $1.25 on the $100. The city government's income is, in round figures, $1,100,000 a year, of which a large amount is spent yearly on public improvements of a permanent nature. The increase in taxable values for the year 1910 was $1,158,041.00. DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FOREIGN PORTS OF LUMBER FROM SAVANNAH IN RUNNING FEET1910, 1939, 1908, 1907, 1906, 1906, 1904 COUNTRY Brazil ___ ................. Chili. ...................... Egypt..... ................. England. . ....-....---.-..-- Italv.. ............ ......... Netherlands (Belg.)... ...... Peru...--.-.......--..----. So. Africa (Br.). ...-.-----.. West Indies (Br.).,. . ....... Totals ___ ....----...-. January 94,000 60,000 16,666 170,000 February 65,000 347,000 41 000 March ' 806,666 i 199,000 ..-.-..-i 160,000. 85,66o 1,250,000 April 507,000 575,666 786,000 1 ,868,000 May 1 ,646,000 75,000. 194,000 470,000 101,000 2,486,000 June 12,000 607,000 762,000 337,000 145,000 104,666 1 ,967,000 July 1,212,000 192,000 273,000 68,000 1,745,000 August 374,000 549,000 67,000 385,000 56,000 1,451,000 Septetn'r 440,000 191,000 82,000 881,000 October 825,000 433,000 9,000 355,000 341,000 53,000 113,000 2,129,000 Novem'r 520,000 301,000 169,000 990,000 Decemb'r 72,000 79,000 264,000 226,000 641000, Total 1910 84,000 2,037,000 4,546,000 9,000 3,538,000 1,464,000 2,483,000 53,000 442,000 101.OOO 15,990,000 ! i Total 1909 352,000 47,000 1,257,000 340,000 1,055,000 40,000 9,122,000 310,000 1,222,000 1,362,000 32,000 28,000 8,167,000 Total 1908 752,000 83,000 878,000 2,285,000 ARA, nnn 9,000 4,859,000 99,000 2,559,000 868,000 1,924,000 551,000 829,000 229,000 267,000 16,656,000 Total 1907 1,740,000 8,000 3,000,000 4,644,000 39,000 178,000 2,953,000 32,000 2,217,000 2,364,000 440,000 2,905,000 3,689,000 24,209,000 Total 1906 104,000 690,000 3,819,000 2,323,000 62,000 1 J.1 fWlfi 2,305,000 ^id nnn 2,165,000 430,000 2,732,000 621,000 376,000 1,560,000 303,000 44.000 18,184,000 Total 1905 490,000 86,000 752,000 cn Ann r\ e t nflfl oqn nnn 3,833,000 3,848,000 fiQQ f\f\f\ 6,972,000 359,000 15,867,000 i Q*i^ ftnn 531,000 758,000 7,0000 105,000 37,738,000 Total 1904 197,000 322,000 157,000 928,000 4,861,000 7.ift ruvt 100,000 842,000 o/ift nftn 2,416,000 2,480,000 2,524,000 3,035,000 513,000 256,000 19,521,000 The above table is exclusive of timber, logs, joists, ecantling, shingles, etc. 4 00-A DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FOREIGN PORTS OF SPIRITS OF TURPENTINE FROM SAVANNAH (IN GALLONS) FOR. 1910, 1909, 1908, 1907, 1906, 1906, 1904 COUNTRY I talv. ..'-..--........................... Totals. .....---..-----...--..... ...-1910 Values. ___ --.......-.....--.....-1910 Totals. ............................. 1 900 Values.. ........................ ....1909 Totals.. ........................ ....1908 Values. . ...--..----......-.......... 1 908 Totals.... ..................... .....1!M)7 Values... .......................... .1907 Totals. ............................. 1 900 Values.-..---.... ---....---..-----.. 191 )C Totals. .....---.-..--...--.......... 1 905 Values .............................. 1 905 Totals. ............................. 1 904 Values ......-...-----..---..--.-.-. 1 004 January 2,6038 127,224 7,806 25,990 151,058 338,101 $199,638 729,812 309,154 714,121 $341 045 457,987 $317,037 188,186 $101,609 58,246 $ 30.574 215,191 $137,434 February 53,326 72,189 5,087 130,602 $ 77,877 1 10,754 47,631 134 V6 $ 60,320 214,586 $157,553 110,316 $ 74,228 140,814 $ 75,496 143,995 $ 81,633 March 6,488 80,035 178,989 265,512 $159,963 88,338 35,242 98,838 $ CO 4O1 43.412 $ 31,382 54,728 $ 37,771 213,730 $114,817 19,245 $ 11,585 April 2,552 56,477 103,248 81,071 243,348 $150,301 48,945 $ 19,560 531,316 $242,825 148,157 $ 98,763 75,842 $ 48,832 59,946 $ 35,767 180 397 $ 98,164 May 512 10,358 141,641 41,162 19,908 49,144 262,725 $164,046 281,288 $112,862 755,614 $332,946 311,051 $204,225 162,843 $ 99,835 380,462 $233,407 OO1 ftft-l $125,622 June 1,026 10,318 316,946 131,788 5,204 97,816 563,098 $337,236 590,020 $244,455 820,453 $363,614 500,695 $299,385 599,275 $343,068 379,481 $234,570 500,339 $264,187 July 1,030 540,970 35,840 1,788 579,629 $ 370,351 1,043,268 $ 481,452 909,580 $ 380 856 872,621 $ 508,135 263,619 $ 152,213 1,801,000 $1,029,221 264,624 $ 130,513 August 5,150 554,975 48,841 157,534 766,500 $512,286 566,132 $296,391 782,160 $324,421 716,725 $412,443 753,063 $440,571 115,500 $ 69,302 769,304 $408,357 September 2,048 23,603 214,744 64,704 55,698 360,797 $ ' 276,072 591,569 $ 348,607 885,817 $ 332,529 515,468 $ 200,306 707,678 $ 438,443 1,014,318 $ 656,438 347,219 $ 186,515 October 1,032 25,999 41,522 68,553 $ 50,065 456,727 $279 ,-104 249,438 $ 91,731 412,210 $217,607 516,001 $347,568 235,013 $167,563 324,805 $170,275 November 609,492 23,241 33,560 666,293 $526,745 235,380 $135,430 426,461 $172,873 590,475 $272,517 340,614 $231,208 468,471 $298,474 170,226 $ 88,674 December 7,939 12,952 132,014 38,962 75,767 267,435 $209,200 498,532 $318,567 227,114 $ 80,187 600,821 $269,415 239,734 $160,751 549,097 $352,345 410,285 $201,375 Total 1910 13,587 80,654 2,780,296 497,816 52,899 927,246 4,512,593 $3,042,780 "/ Total 1909 65,382 225,719 3,479,175 580,052 46,753 658,711 181,182 5,240,774 $2,628,464 - Total 1908 25,760 459,455 3,858,380 830,201 140,964 1,215,845 5,234 6,536,238 $2,794,777 Total 1907 2,575 133,833 2,545,217 1,144,178 178,490 1,429,915 5,434,208 $3,083,764 Total 1906 500 3,102 2,157,836 644,406 68,504 1,140,700 1,849 4,016,809 $2,476,187 Total 1905 691,825 3,056,416 816,653 90,876 760,308 5,416,078 $83,297,074 Total 1904 36,214 328,500 2,237,075 644,530 112,857 218,118 3,577,294 $1,919,334 o B MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 401 Domestic Exports to Foreign Countries from Savannah Durign 1910 to 1904, Inclusive, of Sea Island Cotton, Cottonseed Oil, Cottonseed Meal, Cottonseed and Staves MONTH March _ May......---.. June... -.- July-.. .-.. October. Totals.. ..1910 Totals _ -.1909 Totals _ -.1908 Totals _ -.1907 Totals _ ..1906 Totals.... -1905 Totals.... .1904 I a IS sa 1 154 50 800 75 125 1,667 116 693 3,680 12,239 12,031 16,570 16,554 10,941 16,507 Cottonseed Oil (*Pounds) 2,049,184 1,729,625 2,654,350 1,694,148 5,217,059 1,678,696 319,913 586,550 1,816,843 4,323,683 22,070,051 18,036,594 2,374,153 4,670,591 4,511,413 2,457,171 968,245 Cottonseed Meals (Pounds) 2,463,100 683,445 9,205,728 578,462 448,000 672,000 7,840,000 1,791,760 23,682,495 63,296,612 105,827,840 25,317,420 53,628,641 88,600,172 18,635,450 Cottonseed (Pounds) 1,143,569 1,279,372 772,425 6,126,628 902,220 96,014 448,100 448,000 1,800,140 446,408 1,064,487 1,126,427 15,653,790 32,036,435 31,480,906 9,032,760 9,768,379 13,063,054 9,028,641 t* o 01 .Q >* a 355. 8,372 12,635 52,699 24,980 27,119 41,690 28,590 20,718 12,220 12,855 241,878 164,541 249,902 181,284 515,025 374,692 319,776 After July 1, 1909. cottonseed oil was reported by pounds, instead of gallons. 402 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT SAVANNAH'S CLIMATE (1871-1910 Inclusive.) Temperature, Rainfall, and Miscellaneous Data Compiled from United States Weather Bureau Records at Savannah, Ga., Forty Years TEMPERATURE Annual Mean 7Deg. Highest Maximum on Record 105 Degrees Date * Lowest Minimum on Record, S Degrees Date Feb. 13, 18*1 Absolute Range 7Deg. SEASONAL TEMPERATURE NORMALS Mean __ . De?. ... 50 ..-52 __ 51 March .... May...... Mean _ . "ft! ... 67 _ 72 .-. i I July...... Moan... "ft .... 80 . _ 71 __ 71 Mean __ "ft ... 66 _ 58 ... e PREdPITATIOIl (Amount of Rainfall in inches and hundredth!) Annual Normal j Greatest Yearly __| | Least Yearly | 50.34 I 73.14 1885 I 3C.84 1901 SEASONAL RAINFALL (Normal Indus) Sea'ableAvg. 1.51 March ____ 3.65 April _____ 2.99 May.. ____ .3.00 Sea'able Avg..l.64 | July .... __ .18 Sea'ableAvg. 11.71 Sea'ableAvg. IMS MISCBLLANKOUS DATA MONTH March..... __ ..... April ............... Mav July................ Total ......... Average num-' ^ ^. *?**' Average mim- with.Olofan b^ of clear inch or more< days of precipita-i tion 10 10 8 1 U 13 14 11 1 111 10 12 13 12 8 8 10 14 12 12 121 Average number of partly cloudy days. 11 10 11 10 13 15 16 14 11 10 10 1 140 Average number of cloudy days 10 > 8 6 7 7 8 1 7 .8 10 16 Average date on which first "killing" frost occurred (in autumn). November 25. Average date on which last "killing" front occurred (in spring), February 27- H. B. BOYER. Local Forecaster, Savannah, Ga. DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FOREIGN JouimUES FROM THE PORT OF SAVANNAH, GA., FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910, AND FOR THE TWENTY YEARS PRECEDING. COUNTRY : January jUgentine Republic. ...... . Austria-Hungary. ........... Idgium.... .............. Bermuda .................. Inzil.. ............. ..... aai. ................ ... Cba.... ................ . Dnmark.. ................ last Indies. ..... ....... in>t. ................ .. bfiud (see also Scotland) . Fnnce. ................... . ficnnanv .......... ...... teece.:....... ......... . Ma (Br.).. ....... ........ My.... .................. K-" ftherUnds....... ........ l Xora Scotia, etc.. .......... hoama. ................. hm........ .............. htugal... ................ >.............. ..... bstu. ........ .......... . [hotland (see Eng.)... ... . [Eden........ .. ..... . llea Indies (Brj ........... Ifaib . . ..........1910 limb . ... ...1008 link ... .... 1906 fails ........... ...1905 bob. ..... .... . 1904 fails ...... . . .1903 Bfaib. ... . ..... 1902 fails . ... .1901 fcok . ..... . .1900 Kfa. ...... 1899 bis. , ........... 1897 bk. ... ..1806 Bb. ......... . 1805 ^pih 1 1*( | ok. ........... iln.i ^Htah 1 'w* Bbk. ..... . 1S9I Wi. ........ 1890 ......... 37,555 91.22.1 48.6.15 51.267 1,4.11.570 127,557 178,378 217.084 215.328 .. ...... February $........ 74,484 . . '.1.600 " 360.6 ii 2,233.366 26.397 4.1.U65 81.714 3.2OO 130341 88.686 $2.712,038 5328.479 8,3303% 8.204.675 4.540.185 .1.938,625 7.938,709 6.8S2.150 5.099,332 3.757.102 4.319.77.1 3.141304 3,020.500 2.709.709 1.360.083 2,484.074 3.662.165 2.373.899 1. 618.106 3.492.777 3.249.444 14.9.12 58.600 $2321,189 2.476.227 S.633,147 3.175.327 3.473.537 2.670359 3.872.091 4.928.263 3.388314 4.650.926 4,762.120 2.139,211 2.506.424 1.399.482 1.352.946 1.554,103 999.283 1.069.959 2.587.415 3.030.S6S 2.206.202 March 54.101 24,101 137.401) " 1,023.486 "7119.663 14,481 247.594 10.772 12,717 12.340 92,392 103.602 $2,532.483 -'.451.472 2.647.733 4,703,726 2.793.147 2,579.001 1,552,940 4.605.860 1.332.405 2,720.851 6.206,264 057.133 2.247,860 1.608.049 1. 942.083 1.292.602 1.262.792 1.117.796 1.167.248 2.004.608 1.621.869 April $........ 17.043 s.i.io "I, ~122 .454 "692,840 94,222 182,042 39.731 Sfay $ 30,873 12,405 ......... 372",523 ""585,118 32,883 239.159 1.270 I 159.679 190.636 60.968 $2,564,745 2.926,394 2.480.660 2.962,119 3.752.685 1,654.666 2,391,806 3.539 085 2,042,930 2.1.17.333 3.310,838 653.111 1,524.133 1,166.364 1,0.11,209 1,477.426 1.307,212 803.992 752.365 1.226.996 811.181 35.625 159,904 83.395 4,316 7,700 $1.659,013 1,968.386 1.638.241 2,916,291 2.675.911 5.062,122 820,635 1.479.444 2,290.572 2.629.638 1.366.804 877.702 890.857 1.090.874 1.449,343 835.746 1.189,987 847.273 834.225 958.872 501.335 June $........ 25.!4 12,244 897,698 835.963 34,276 1 19.583 29,320 199.925 42.024 $2.196.381 2.345.982 2.114.603 2.335.353 3.114.214 2.345.618 836.840 749.610 1.540.027 1.459.007 1.306.641 1.212.859 1.105,833 788.496 865,892 63836.1 712,131 929.103 762.429 705.899 465.024 July ' t. ..... 680 ......... "497,586 "l 92.095 7,744 23.195 12.500 91,082 17.534 3.700 $ 306,116 1.020,691 813.523 1.752.065 1,726.325 3,333,987 543,162 763,426 1.038.873 1.452.505 1.306.641 1.076,125 839,272 588,824 668,239 1.024.405 401.197 633.671 541.731 474.O91 455.582 August $......... ......... .1,600 522.956 "94,193 183.886 7.106 ::.:::." $ 813,007 699.953 71*4.052 866,259 2.543.140 2,333309 535.333 474.855 855.511 653,264 1.120,161 845,555 722,415 557,171 646,931 549,729 283,257 466.004 513.339 340,052 .122,43.1 September 45.727 2.1.842 50 " 2,28l".255 1.111,400 2.333.751 149.822 91.349 18.750 116.416 8.404 276,902 101,346 $ 6,557.014 12.370.714 6.504.789 5,641.790 3.032,650 8.856.613 9,815,325 4.389.382 6.620,984 2,676,564 6.424,584 3,077.701 1.501,923 1.928.908 1.680.198 1.348.396 789.908 1,566.238 970,991 816.965 3.529,782 October $.._..-.--- ""88,133 32.994 105.000 "3.21U3M 1,766,222 5,667.005 323.920 70.310 .1.975 13.179 32,569 347 625,561 51.167 $14,072,216 14.663,507 9,840,759 10,982.576 11.970.486 9,037,453 14,705.929 9.854.486 7.260,964 6,818,107 9,442,112 4,74.1,510 3,088,123 5,164,491 2.721,958 4,495,246 3394,571 4,889.4.16 3.820.117 4.410.403 6,165.418 November $__......-. 232.448 18.468 " ~S,49732i 429.278 4.371,840 30.540 119.596 14,003 176,603 707 232,238 92,733 $11.216,281 12.427.205 7,828,947 10,769,549 0.952,478 11,279,117 10,074,689 11.547.482 7.409,853 7,442,998 5,631,579 4.397,041 5.101,507 5.142,515 5,101,477 3,337,539 3.596,128 4.941.933 4.994,804 7,253,087 4,766.822 December $--........ ""203,294 152,538 2,872 " "6,"l7V,493 2.810,693 3.549,256 263,304 334,745 14,415 210,598 376 579.785 38,725 $14,334,335 7.747.415 7.120,742 10,837,811 9,511.377 9,445,231 8,306,156 9.352.730 8.771,686 6,767,674 4,449,297 2.956.110 3,794,044 4.260,139 3,860.450 2.652.154 3.275.885 3,896.139 1,856,281 4,761,903 6,854.899 Totals 1910 ""3O4"598 701,373 88.133 333,937 9.600 296,589 "25,473.231 6,245,150 21,493,572 166,282 1.179,689 61,298 14,003 79,105 517,728 117,368 2,514,718 323,346 4.316 7.700 $62.284,818 .......... .......... .......... Totals 1909 $ 12.843 352,205 1,190.073 732,077 63.386 18,953 117,914 1.095 "20,526.631 6,941,303 30,434,331 7,152 1,230,336 1,731,424 57,859 6.800 36.845 1,243,165 189.307 2,031,626 456,760 10,586 12,639 $07,378,310 .......... .......... .......... Totals 1908 $ 23,852 94,277 1,084,677 53.1,180 14,452 6.967 338.482 13,219 " "9,658,547 5,0 11. MO 24.485.449 5,202 12,210 1,630,879 3,033,622 49,833 10,212 21,843 23,148 28,522 1,548.587 173.487 4,706.129 1,010,539 17,568 7,900 $53.758,092 .......... .......... 26,077,826 26,342.891 26.405,522 22,680,811 23,535,503 30 *M9 001 Totals 1907 1 84,387 24,100 992,342 538,876 197,820 6.002 290,744 36,001 "14,603,175 4,263,324 29.172.328 5,990 1,732,639 3,554,588 81,657 31,201 12,875 30,701 320,104 1.663,720 1,500 5,586,734 1,138,819 17,299 $65,147.666 .......... ---------- .......... .......... Totals 1906 $ 12,200 48,509 1,596,299 89,938 1,382,556 418,705 11,210 45.900 263,498 31.464 "11,681,731 4,116,617 26,774.490 2,916 1,119,536 2.980,359 22,772 13,660 39,188 1.766.942 " *4.847,i57 1.253,970 26,462 4,197 $58,807,666 .......... .......... .......... Totals 1905 $.......... 163,930 1,065.485 . 717,402 12,506 11,249 25,300 404,715 45.306 71,335 11,881,341 2.988.916 31.301.155 7.345 1,489,137 1,975.634 30,701 111,087 13,904 3.101,473 57 ,376 5,860,575 1.151,463 38.633 1,290 S62.546.01 1 .......... .......... Totals 1904 $ 4.253 34.538 560,841 475.837 2.857 S7.:!18 9,330 80,845 3 US5 "is.Ysi.'Jsi 2,936, :7:i 36,216,948 3.J75 5,917 2,168,092 1,310,0 45,162 381,127 94,153 2.617.** "~3,V2".i8S 891, :20 15,30 13,2 $61. 368.<15 ;;.....;. Totals 1903 $ 6,277 55,205 529.153 1,489,559 145.325 7,1)81 161.350 "i2,627",662 3,529.680 28,386.379 18.021 1.368.150 1.567, 137 130,613 120,198 83.492 3.326.468 3.121 55,988 4.032,751 811,712 11,089 (58.566.773 Totals 1902 ( 6,277 56,737 372,807 1.489,5211 105,2311 10.079 233,625 31,018 "il, 490.286 2,460.314 21. 848.454 1.462,868 1.542,127 67,041 198,502 3,875 2.232,648 4,500 261,769 2.821,991 . 939.722 15.331 12,000 $47.671,105 Totals 1901 $........-. 91.541 329,858 7,121 1,650,435 72.321 3,906 2.632 57.540 25.547 "l2.MV.453 1,472,171 21,953,409 1,062,387 1,043,091 21,963 12,665 447.960 4.453 288.049 3,215.821 9.015 33.958 25.102 $44.166.059 .......... Totals 1900 $. ........ 122.113 537,235 2,382,283 63,740 16,748 78.8.18 i4."03b",823 1.636.133 22,633,813 2,700.948 190,849 1.009,568 44,590 661,134 105.31.1 3.177,953 50,941 11,631 15.702 $49,530.25J .......... ......... COUNTRY Africa Argentine Republic Austria-Hungary Azores Belgium Bermuda Brazil Chili China Cuba Denmark East Indies Egypt England (see also Scotland) France Germany Greece India (Br.) Italy Japan Netherlands Norway Nova Scotia, etc. Panama Peru Portugal Quebec Russia San Domingo Scotland (see Eng.) Spain Sweden Uruguay West Indies (Br.) Totals. ... . ...... lints Totals. ........... 1907 Totals. ............. . llt(l.'> Totals. ............. lllllt Totals..... .... . . . .UK):: Totals.. ... ....... .190:! Totals... .......... .1901 Totals.... ...... . 1900 Totals.. ... ... . . 1S99 Totals. ........ . . IS'.'S Totals.... . . ... IS'.IT Totals.... . . . ISHii Totals.... .. ....... ISiCi Totals. ........ . 1S1U Totals...... . . .. l.i!i:: Totals.... ..... 1,S!H 1 DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES FROM THE PORT OF SAVANNAH, GA., FOI COUNTRY Argentine Republic. ........ Austria-Hungary. ........... Bermuda- . ---------------- Brazil. -------------------- ChilL-------. ------------- China. _____-.-.-_-.-.----- Cuba __ .......-.-----.--- Egypt --.-----------... England (see also Scotland) . . France.. ____-------...-- Germany. ................. India (Br.)----------------- Italy __ --........----.... Japan ___._._.._.--...- Xorway.. .. _ ............ Xova Scotia, etc.. ---------- Peru... .-.---...----.---- Quebec _ . .-.---.....-.... Russia.. ._-_-...- ...-----.- S^nt.lanH (sr& Rng ) Sweden. . .................. Uruguay .................. West Indies (Br.)- ---------- Totals.. ....... -.-----.1910 Totals. ......-.------.- 1909 Totals. .-..--.--.._.... 1908 Totals. ..-.....-.------ 1 907 Totals.. ...... ---------1906 Totals.. ........ .-----.1905 Totals.... ........ .....1904 Totals.. .......... .....1903 Totals.... .----.-.. ....1902 Totals............ ----.1901 Totals...--. ------ -..--1900 Totals.. ..-----.-..... .1899 Totals.. ............ ..1898 Totals.... . .....---.. . .1897 Totals..-..-... ------- .1896 Totals.... - ............ 1895 Totals.. .-.....-.--.---1894 Totals-..--.--..... -.-.1893 Totals.... ............ .1892 Totals... ............ ..1891 Totals..... ....... .....1890 January $....--.. 37,555 91,223 48,635 51,267 1,431,570 127,557 178,378 217,084 215,328 81,714 3,200 139,841 88,686 *9 719 ftqo 5,828,479 8,330,896 8,204,675 4,540,185 3,938,625 7,938,709 6,882,150 5,099,332 3,757,192 4,319,773 3,141,804 3,020,500 2,709,709 1,360,085 2,484,074 3,662,165 2,373,899 1,618,106 3,492,777 3,249,444 February $.....--- 74,484 9,600 360,611 2 977 f^ftft 26,397 43,065 14,932 co Aftft 9 1291 1 Qfl 2 J.7fi 997 3,633,147 3 17C qo7 3 4.77 Ci77 2 fi70 ft^O 3,872,091 4 Q9Q 9ftq 3 qoo o i A 4,650,926 4 7fi9 1 9ft 2 1 7Q 911 2,506,424 1 7QO J.Q9 1,352,946 1,554,103 QQO 9Q7 1,069,959 2,587,415 3,030,868 2,206,202 March $--...-.- 54,101 24,101 137,400 1,023,480 7QQ fift7 1 4. 4.J11 247,594 10,772 12,717 12,340 O9 7Q9 1 ft7 Afl9 9 Kq9 J.Q7 o ACi 4.79 2 fi4.7 777 4,703,726 2 7Q7 1 4.7 2,579,001 1 J552.940 4,605,860 1,352,405 2 79ft ft=.1 6 nf\f eye A QE7 i qq 2 94.7 GRH 1 fiftft ft4.Q 1 Q4.9 ftft7 1 9O9 fift9 1 9fi9 7Q9 1 117 7AC 1,167,248 9 nnj. fine I fioi Gen April $.-...--. 17,043 5,130 1,122,454 RQ9 R4n OA. 999 182,042 7Q 771 1 CQ 7Q 190,636 Aft QfiQ $2,564,745 2 Q9A 7Q4. 9 4.ftft fififl 2 QA9 1 1 Q 3 TCO RQK. 2 7Q1 ftftfi 3 cqQ ftQE 2 ft4.9 Q7ft 2 1 77 777 3 71 ft QOQ fi CO 111 1 ^94. 1 77 1 1 CA OA/1 1 ft71 9ftQ 1,477,426 1 7ft7 919 Rft7 QQ9 7^9 7ft P 1 99R QQft Oil I QI May I........ 92,530 30,873 12,405 372,523 CQC 1 1 Q qo QOO OOO 1 10 1,270 qc ROI Q1 o i =10 Qft4 CO 7QC 4,316 7,700 $1,659,013 1 fl*O OOfi 1 fiOQ OAT 9 916 991 2 A7E QI 1 5 f\Df\ 1 OO QOft ftqc. 2 9OO ^79 2 A9Q ft7ft 1 7AA ftfiJ. 077 7ft9 QQA OE.7 i non S74. 1 4.4.Q 74.7 OOE 74A 1 1 fcQ Qft7 847,273 oqx 99R QKft Q79 cni 77=1 June $.._____ ~25~984 12,244 897,098 QOC QA7 O y* O7C m coq 9Q 79ft 1 OQ Q9^ 42,024 9 1 flft *3Q 1 2 0,1= OQ9 2,114,603 2 qq= OCK 3,114,214 2,345,618 ocft o,in 749,610 1,540,027 1 J.^O ftfY7 I on A A/i 1 1 919 fi^Q 1 i n^ ft77 TQQ /I O A rt/c OA9 AOO OAO 712,131 GOO i n*i 762,429 705,899 465,024 July $----.. 680 497,586 152,095 7 74.4. 23,195 12,500 91,082 17,534 3,700 $ 306,116 1,020,691 QI q K9q 1,752,065 1 TOA QOC. 3 qqq 007 KAO 1 ftO 763,426 1 AOQ Q7Q 1 4 =i9 ^ft^ 1,306,641 1,076,125 QOQ 979 CQQ QOA AAQ 9*5(1 1.024,405 Aft1 1 Q7 COO AT 1 C41 7^1 474,091 ^ = = EQO August $...----.. 3,600 522,956 94 193 183,886 7,106 $ 813,007 699,953 794,052 866,259 2,543,140 o ooo ono 535,333 474,855 855,511 653,264 1,120,161 845,555 799 4.1 ^ 557,171 ftj.fi Q71 CJ.Q 79Q OQO 9^7 466,004 ci q qqo 340,052 322,433 September $--.----.- 45,727 23,842 50 2,281,255 1,111,400 9 771 7=.1 149,822 91,349 18,750 116,416 8,404 276,902 101,346 $ 6,557,014 12,370,714 6,504,789 5,641,790 7 O79 fi^fl 8,856,613 O QI E q9 = 4 7ftO 75S9 6,620,984 2,676,564 6,424,584 3,077,701 1,501,923 1,928,908 1,680,198 1 74.51 7Qfi 789,908 1,566,238 970,991 01 c na K o son 7ft9 October $.------.- 88,133 32,!)!)4 105,000 5,291,834 1,766,222 5,667,005 323,920 70,310 3,975 13,179 32,569 347 625,561 51,167 $14,072,216 14,663,507 9,840,759 10,982,576 11,970,486 9,037,453 U 7f>T Q9Q 9,854,486 7,260,964 6,818,107 9,442,112 4 7J.7 ci n 3 f\oo i oq 5,164,491 2,721,958 4,495,246 3,894,571 4 QOQ A7ft q Qon 117 4,410,403 6.165,418 November $.......... 232,448 18,468 5,497,821 400 070 4,371,840 30,546 119,596 14,003 176,603 707 232,238 Q9 777 $11,216,281 12,427,205 7 090 QA7 10,769,549 9 QB.O 4.7ft U 97O 117 10,074,689 U t\d.7 J.ft9 7,409,853 7 4.4.9 OQft c cqi c.'Tfi 4 7O7 ft41 5,101,507 5,142,515 5,101,477 3 777 ^7O 3 EQC 1 00 4 Q4.1 (*77 A Q04. ftftj, 7 9^7 Oft7 4 7ftA O99 ! Decembej $-....... J 203,2! 152,5? 2 o^l 6,171,49 2,810,63 3 KJ.Q Ofl 263,31 334,7| 14,41 2lb,5a 31 579,73 OQ 7<1 $14,334,33 7,747,41 7,120,71 10,837,81 9 Ei 1 O*a 9 /1-1= 9*1 8 Qnft 1 9 0=0 7*1 8,77 l,6i 6 7ft*7 A*l 4,449,2| 2, 956,1 1 3 70-1 r\J 4,260,11 3 dAn i 3,275,8i 3,896,11 1,856,21 4,761, 9l 6 O * 1 Of 402-A )RTS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES FROM THE PORT OF SAVANNAH, GA., FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910, AND FOR THE TWENTY YEARS i wo a-ro M)S 523 118 159 :>70 S">5 ?r> >Q = *16 rno )13 *86 641 kl |90 ^35 W.1 C"7*> !i38 and rrv> S57 S74 K43 f '1 tf* k73 >*>X t7'> [lOr June $ 25,984 12,244 897,098 835,963 34,276 119,583 29,320 199,925 42,024 $2,196,381 2 345 98'' 2,114.603 2,335.355 3,114,214 2,345,618 856,840 749,610 1.540,027 1,459,007 1,306,641 1,212,859 1,105,833 788.496 865 89*-1 638,863 712,131 929,103 762,429 705,899 465,024 July $___.__- 680 497,586 152,095 7,744 23,195 12,500 91,082 17,534 3,700 $ 306,110 1,020,691 813,523 1,752,065 1,726,325 3,333,987 543,162 763,426 1,038,873 1,452,505 1,306,641 1,076,125 839,272 588,824 668,239 1 .024,405 401,197 633,671 541,731 474,091 455,582 August $_- --_- 3,600 522,956 94,193 183,886 7,106 $ 813,007 699,953 794,052 see,^ 2,543,140 2,333,809 535,333 474,855 855,511 653,264 1,120,161 845,555 722,415 557,171 646,931 549,729 283,257 466,004 513,339 340,052 322,433 September $_-- 45,727 23,842 50 2,281,255 1,111,400 2,333,751 149,822 91,349 18,750 116,416 8,404 276,902 101,346 $ 6,557,014 12,370,714 6,504,789 5,641,790 3,032,650 8,856,613 9,815,325 4.389,382 6,620,984 2,676,564 6,424,584 3,077,701 1.501,923 1,928,908 1,680,198 1,348,396 789,908 1,566,238 970,991 816,965 3,529,782 October $.......... 88,133 32,994 105,000 5,291,834 1,766,222 5,667,005 323,920 70,310 3,975 13,179 32,569 347 625,561 51,167 $14,072,216 14,663,507 9,840,759 10,982,576 11,970,486 9,037,453 14,705,929 9,854,486 7,260,964 6,818,107 9,442,112 4,743,510 3,088,123 5,164,491 2,721,958 4,495,246 3,894,571 4,889,436 3,820,117 4,410,403 6,165,418 November $..-.-..--. 232,448 18,468 5,497,821 429,278 4,371,840 30,546 119,596 14,003 176,603 707 232,238 92,733 $11,216,281 12,427,205 7,828,947 10,769,549 9,952,478 11,279,117 10,074,689 11,547,482 7,409,853 7,442,998 5,631,579 4,397,041 5,101,507 5,142,515 5,101,477 3,337,539 3,596,128 4,941,933 4,994,804 7,253,087 4,766,822 December $ ... . . 203,294 152,538 2,872 6,171,493 2,810,693 3,549,256 OfiQ ^f\A 334,745 14,415 210,598 376 579,785 38,725 $14,334,335 7,747,415 7,120,742 10,837,811 9,511,377 9,445,231 8,306,156 9,352,730 8,771,686 6,767,674 4,449,297 2,956,110 3,794,044 4,260,139 3,860,450 2,652,154 3,275,885 3,896,139 1,856,281 4,761,903 6,854,899 Totals 1910 $..-. 304,596 701,373 88,133 333,937 9,600 296,589 25,473,231 6,245,150 21,493,572 166,282 1,179,689 61,298 14,003 79,105 517,728 117,368 2,514,718 323,346 4,316 7,700 $62,284,818 Totals 1909 $ 12,843 352,205 1,190,073 732,077 63,386 18,953 117,914 1,095 20,526,631 6,941,303 30,434,331 7,152 1,230,336 1,731,424 57,859 6,800 36,845 1,243,165 189,307 2,031,626 456,760 10,586 12,639 $67,378,310 Totals 1908 $ 23,852 94,277 1,084,677 533,186 14,452 6,967 338,482 13,219 9,658,547 5,011.340 24,485,449 5,202 12,210 1,630,879 3,033,622 49,833 10,212 21,843 23,148 28,522 1,548,587 173,487 4,706,129 1,010,539 17,568 7,900 $53,758,092 26,077,826 26,342,891 26,405,522 22,680,811 21,690,283 21,374,516 23,535,503 20,319,051 29,476,491 30,949,991 Totals 1907 $ 84,387 24,100 992,342 "538,876 197,820 6,002 290,744 36,001 14,603,175 4,263,324 29,172.328 5,990 1,732,639 3,554,588 81,657 31,201 12,675 Jn 7fil 320,104 1,663,720 1,500 5,586,734 1,138,819 17,299 $65,147,666 Totals 1906 $ 12,200 48,509 1,596,299 89,938 1,382,556 418,705 11,210 45,900 263,498 31,464 11,681,731 4,116,617 26,774.490 2,916 1,119,536 2,980,359 22,772 17,390 13,660 39,188 1,766,942 4,847,157 1 *>V4 Q7A 26,462 4,197 $55,807,666 Totals 1905 $.-.- i co o^n 1,065,485 . 717,462 12,506 ! 1,249 25,300 404,715 45,306 71,335 11,881,341 2.988,916 31,301.155 7.345 1 J.&Q 1 .7 1,975,634 30,701 18,673 m f\ofr to QHA 3,101,473 57,376 5,860,575 1,151,463 38.633 1,290 $62,546,011 . Totals 1 $ 4 34, 560, ,47 e 2, 87, 9, 80, 3, 15,781, 2,936, 36,216, *: 0 2,168, 1,310, ACL OQ1 'QA 2,617, 3,612, Q1 15, i ^ $61,368, ::::::, Hi THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910, AND FOR THE TWENTY YEARS PRECEDING. 5 a 3 i t 5 i i > I ' D 5 ( 7 8 i 9 D i 5 9 9 Totals 1910 $...------ :?04.5!5 701,373 ss. m 333.937 Totals 1909 $ 12,843 352,205 1.100,073 732,077 ."..... .. 63,386 9,600 296,589 25,473,231 6,245,150 21,493,572 166,282 18,953 117,914 1,095 20,526,631 6,941,303 30,434,331 7,152 1.2:30,336 i, 179,680 1,731.424 61,298 i 57,85!) 14,003 79,105 517,728 1 17,368 2,514,718 323,346 4,316 7,700 $62,284,818 . ..... . '6,800 36,845 1,243,165 189,307 2,031,626 456,760 10,586 12,639 $07,378,310 Totals 1908 $ 23,852 94,277 1,084,677 533,180 14,452 6,967 338,482 13,219 9,658,547 5,011,340 24,485,449 5,202 12,210 1,630,879 3,033,622 49,833 10,212 21,843 23,148 28,522 1,548,587 173,487 4,706,129 1,010,539 17,568 7,900 $53,758,092 26,077,826 26,342,891 26,405,522 22,680,811 21,690,283 21,374,516 23,535,503 20,319,051 29,476,491 30,949,991 Totals 1907 $ 84,387 24,100 992,342 538,876 197,820 6,002 290,744 36,001 14,603,175 4,263,324 29,172.328 5,990 1,732,639 3,554,588 81,657 31,201 12,675 30,701 320,104 1,663,720 1,500 5,586,734 1,138,819 17,299 $65.147,666 Totals 1906 $ 12,200 48,509 1,596,299 89,938 1,382,556 418,705 11,210 45,900 263,498 31,464 11,681,731 4,116,617 26,774.490 2,916 1,119,536 2,980,359 22,772 17,390 13,660 39,188 1,766,942 4,847,157 1,253,970 26,462 4,197 $58,807,666 Totals 1905 $ . 163,950 1,065,485 . 717,462 12,506 11,249 25,300 404,715 45,306 71,335 11,881,341 2.988,916 31,301.155 7.345 1,489,137 1,975,634 30,701 18,673 111,087 13,904 3,101,473 57,376 5,860,575 1,151,463 38.633 1,290 $62,546,011 , Totals 1904 $ 4,253 34,538 560,841 475,837 2,857 87,318 9,330 80,845 3,955 15,781,184 2,936,173 36,216,948 3,275 5,917 2,168,092 1,310,489 45,462 I 381,027 94,453 2,617,384 3,612,485 891,320 15,820 13,452 1 $61,368,(115 -:-:-)-- :::::: ._-._-.. L- ...... .j,. -4 ........\. .......... Totals 1903 $ 6,277 55,295 529,153 1,489,559 145,325 7,081 161,350 12,627,662 3,529,680 28,386,379 18,021 1,368,150 1,567,137 130,613 21,926 120,198 83,492 3,326,468 3,121 55,988 4,032,751 811,712 11,089 $58,566,773 Totals 1902 $ 6,277 56,737 372,807 1,489,529 105,239 4,300 10,079 233,625 31,018 11,490,286 2,460,314 21,848,454 1,462,868 1,542,127 67,041 198,502 3,875 2,232,648 4,500 261,769 2,821,991 . 939,722 15,331 12,000 $47,671,195 Totals 1901 $ ._-. 91,541 329,858 7,121 1,650,435 72,321 3,996 2,632 57,540 25,547 12,341,453 1,472,171 21,953,409 1,062,387 1,043,091 21,963 12,665 447,960 4,453 288,049 3,215,821 9,015 33,958 25,102 $44,166,059 Totals 1900 $. ........ 122,113 537,235 2,382,283 63,740 16,748 78,838 14,030,823 1.636,133 22,633,813 2,700,948 190,849 1,069,568 44,590 661,134 105,313 3,177,953 50,941 11,631 15,702 $49,530,255 COUNTRY Africa Argentine Republic Austria-Hungary Azores Belgium Bermuda Brazil Chili China Cuba Denmark East Indies Egypt England (see also Scotland) France Germany Greece India (Br.) Italy Japan Netherlands Norway Nova Scotia, etc. Panama Peru Portugal Quebec Russia San Domingo Scotland (see Eng.) Spain Sweden Uruguay West Indies (Br.) Totals. _ ..... .. . 1909 Totals.............. .1908 Totals __ ........ . 1907 Totals __ .......... .1906 Totals.............. .1905 Totals.... . ......... . .1904 Totals.. . ............. 1903 Totals.. .............. 1902 Totals............ . .1901 Totals.. ... ........... 1900 Totals. ............... 1 899 Totals.... . ........... 1898 Totals....... ...... ...1897 Totals............. ...1896 Totals.. ............. .1895 Totals..... ........ ...1894 Totals.. ........... ...1893 Totals.. .............. 1892 Totals. ............... 1891 Totals.... ........... .1890 ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH, GA. TOGETHER WITH IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS, COMMUNICATIONS AND REPORTS ADOPTED DURING THE YEAR 1910 COMPILED BY N. P. CORISH Clerk of Council MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 405 ORDINANCES To Amend Tax Ordinance An ordinance to amend the tax ordinance adopted December 29, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the tax ordinance of the City of Savannah, adopted at a meeting of its Council, held December 29, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: (a) By changing the words "branches of bakeries $10 each" so that they shall hereafter read "branches of bread or cake bakeries $10 each." (b) By adding after the words just mentioned, and making the same a part of the tax ordinance, the following: ' "Every manufacturer of crackers and biscuits, or of crackers or biscuits, and every branch or agency of such manufacturer, $200." (c) Every manufacturer of ice cream $30, with the privilege of selling his own product from push carts or other vehicles upon the payment of $10 for each cart or vehicle, in addition to the charge of $30 payable by the manufacturer." SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, that all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed January 12, 1910. 406 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Tax Assessors By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to authorize the tax assessors of the City of Savannah to change the assessment on the property of the estate of J. M. Cuyler. SECTIOX 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the tax assessors of the City of Savannah be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to reduce the assessment on the property of che estate of J. M. Cuyler, known as Cuyler Lots, 7 and 8, in Kehoe and Oliver wards, if, in their judgment a mistake has been made by them, and make such reduced assessment apply to previous years, notwithstanding the expiration of time under the ordinance. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained that all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed January 12, 1910. SaleStrip of Land By Alderman Entelman An ordinance to authorize the sale, at private sale, of the strips of land herein mentioned. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled: Whereas, the first strip herein mentioned was deeded by P. D. Baffin to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah on the oth day of December, 1901, for the extension MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 407 of Drayton street, the consideration money being one hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty cents ($181.80); and whereas, the said municipal corporation changed its plan as to Drayton street and does not propose to use the strip for the purpose, and the vendor, the said P. D. Damn, desires to repurchase the strip for the consideration paid to him. In consideration of the premises, it is now ordained that a deed be made, in the name of the Municipal Corporation by its Mayor, to the said P. D. Baffin conveying to him, for the sum of $181.80, the said strip described as follows: The western strip of lot number twenty-four (24), section eight (8), Southville ward, bounded north by Forty-second street, east by the remaining portion of lot number twenty-four (24), south by Estill avenue, and west by lot number twenty-two (22), Southville ward. Said strip of land has a frontage on Forty-second street of 7.69 feet and a frontage on Estill avenue of 8.48 feet, with a depth of 89.69 feet; making a total area of 725.1 square feet. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets be and it is hereby authorized to sell, at private sale, and for such price as may seem to the Committee to be fair and proper, the western strip of that certain lot of land in the City of Savannah known as lot number forty-four (44), Kings subdivision, Norwood ward, bounded north by Forty-second street, east by Jefferson street, south by Best street and west by lot number fortysix (46), Norwood ward; said strip of land having a frontage on Forty-second street of 4.3 feet and a frontage on Best street of 5.3 feet, and a frontage on Jefferson street of ninety (90) feet; making a total area of four hundred and thirtytwo (432) square feet, and the Mayor of the City of Savannah is hereby authorized to make a proper conveyance, in the name of the Municipal Corporation, to the purchaser of the said strip. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. 408 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Ordinance passed January 26, 1910. Fruit Stands, Dry Goods Stores and Bakeries By Alderman Entelman An ordinance to require the closing of fruit stands, dry goods stores and bakeries selling near-beer at midnight. Saturday night and until 6 a. m. of the following Monday. SECTION. 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That it is hereby made the duty of all persons running or conducting a fruit store, dry goods store, or bakery, who sell therefrom near-beer, to close their places of business every Saturday night at midnight and to keep them closed until 6 a. m., city time, of the following Monday; and a failure to comply with this ordinance shall be punishable upon conviction before the Police Court of the City of Savannah to a fine not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars and imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, either or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained that all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed January 26, 1910. To Abolish a Portion of Drayton Street By Alderman Battey An ordinance to abolish a portion of Drayton street. SECTIOX 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That that portion of the contemplated extension of Drayton street, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 409 which lies between the southern right-of-way of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company and the north property line of Estill avenue, be discontinued as part of Drayton street, and so much of the proposed Drayton street as runs from the said southern right-of-way of the said railway company to the north property line of Estill avenue is abolished as a part of Drayton street, and, further, that Section 1375 of MacDonelTs Code of Savannah be and it is hereby amended accordingly. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained that all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed January 26, 1910. Closing of Fruit Stands, Dry Goods Stores and Bakeries Selling Near-Beer By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to amend an ordinance, adopted January 26, 1910, entitled "An ordinance to require the closing of fruit stands, dry goods stores and bakeries selling near-beer at midnight Saturday night and until 6 a. m. of the following Monday." SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the above entitled ordinance be and the same is hereby amended, so that, as amended, it shall read as follows: "Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That it is hereby made the duty of all persons running or conducting a fruit store, dry goods store, bakery, eating-house or eating place, who sell therefrom near-beer, to close their places of business every Saturday night at midnight and to keep them closed until 6 a. m.. 410 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT city time, of the following Monday; and a failure to comply with this ordinance shall be punishable, upon conviction before the Police Court of the City of Savannah, to a fine not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars and imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, either or both, in the discretion of the court; provided this ordinance shall not apply to bona fide restaurants which have first obtained from the Mayor of the City of Savannah a permit as such restaurant. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 9, 1910. Assessment RollOgeechee Road By the Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to correct an error in the ordinance adopted February 24, 1909, entitled "An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of the Ogeechee road from the south property line of Anderson street to the south property line of Thirty-seventh street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 8, 1908." Section 1. \Vhereas, since the adoption of the above entitled ordinance it has been ascertained that an error exists, in that Mrs. M. L. Johnston is assessed as the owner of lots 28 and 29, Law ward, in the sum of $194.90 and it has since been ascertained that J. F. Cann and H. H. Bacon own the southern portion of lot 29, said southern portion having a frontage on the Ogeechee road of fifty-six 9-10 feet, and that, therefore, the said Mrs. M. L. Johnston has been charged an excessive amount, and $88.01 of the amount charged by the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 411 said ordinance to her ought to be charged to the said J. F. Cann and H. H. Bacon. Now, therefore, be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the said assessment roll, adopted by the said ordinance, be and the same is hereby corrected so as to deduct from the amount charged to the said Mrs. M. L. Johnston the sum of $88.01, and that this last mentioned sum be and the same is charged against J. F. Cann and H. H. Bacon, as the owners of a frontage on the Ogeechee road of fifty-six 9-10 feet, and all the provisions of the said ordinance are made applicable to the said J. F. Cann and H. H. Bacon as fully and as completely as if they were included in the assessment roll and in the said ordinance as the owners of the said 56.9 feet. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained that all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 9, 1910. Sidewalks, Roadways, Grass Plats, Etc. By Alderman Entelmen An ordinance to secure uniformity in the sidewalks, roadways, grass plats, etc., in the streets covered by this ordinance. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the widths of sidewalks, roadways and grass plats in that section of the City of Savannah which is bounded on the north by the southern property line of Thirty-seventh street, on the south by the southern property line of Estill avenue, on the east by the eastern property line of Habersham street, and on the west by the eastern right of way line of the Atlantic 412 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Coast Line Railway, not already provided for by ordinance, and of Maupas avenue and of Forty-first street from Bull street to the western right-of-way line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway; Barnard and Montgomery streets from Fortysecond street to Best street; Best street from Montgomery street to the intersection of the western right-of-way line of the Savannah Electric Company, near Bull street, shall be as follows, to wit: 1. Streets, forty (40) feet in width, shall have a roadway in the center thereof of twenty-eight (28) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof of six (6) feet in width. 2. Streets forty-five (45) feet in width shall have a roadway in the center thereof of thirty (30) feet in width, grass plats on either side thereof (next to curb) of two and one-half (2V) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof (next to property line) of five (5) feet in width. 3. Streets fifty (50) feet in width shall have a roadway in the center thereof of thirty (30) feet in width, grass plats on either side thereof (next to curb) of three (3) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof of five (5) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof (next to property line) of two (2) feet in width, with the exception of Fortieth street, which shall have a roadway in the center thereof of thirtytwo (32) feet in width, grass plats on either side thereof (next to curb) of three (3) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof of five (5) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof (next to property line) one (1) foot in width. 4. Streets sixty (60) feet in width shall have a roadway in the center thereof of thirty-two (32) feet in width, grass plats on either side thereof (next to curb) of four (4) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof of five (5) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof (next to property line) of five (5) feet in width, with the exception of Habersham street, which shall have a roadway in the center thereof MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 413 of forty (40) feet in width, grass plats on either side thereof (next to curb) of three (3) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof of five (5) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof (next to property line) of two (2) feet in width. 5. Streets seventy-five (75) feet in width shall have a roadway in the center thereof of forty-five (45) feet in width, grass plats on either side thereof (next the curb) of five (5) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof of five (5) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof (next to property line) of five (5) feet in width. 6. Streets one hundred (100) feet in width shall have a grass plat in the center thereof of twenty (20) feet in width, a roadway on either side thereof of twenty-five (25) feet in width, sidewalks on either side thereof (next to curb) of six (6) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof (next to property line) of nine (9) feet in width. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained that whenever sidewalks are laid granite curbing shall be used to enclose the same, and the said curbing shall be four (4) by eighteen (18) inches. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained that all sidewalks mentioned in Section one (1) of this ordinance shall be paved with artificial stone by the abutting property owners within three (3).months from the passage of this ordinance, materials, etc., to be satisfactory to the Committee on Streets and Lanes. Should the sidewalks not be paved within the time mentioned then the City of Savannah shall proceed to pave the said sidewalks at the expense of the abutting property owners. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed in Council February 9, 1910. 414 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Assessment RollPresident Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of President street from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, adopted December 19, 1906. SECTION' 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the director of public works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, and entitled, "An ordinance for the improvement of portions of certain streets and lanes in the City of Savannah, Georgia, that is to say," etc., (naming a number of streets and lanes), President from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street," etc., "all under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to President street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the west side of Bull street and extending to the east side of Whitaker street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 415 SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bill be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 9, 1910. Assessment RollCharlton Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Charlton street, from the east side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted December 19, 1906. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the director of public works for the City of Savannah, and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of portions of certain streets and lanes in the City of Savannah, Georgia, that is to say," etc., (naming a number of streets and lanes), "Charlton street from the east side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street," etc., "all under the terms 416 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled, "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Charlton street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the east side of Bull street and extending to the west side of Drayton street, and at the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 9, 1910. Assessment RollMacon Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Macon street MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 417 from the east side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, adopted December 19, 1906. . SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll prepared and submitted to Council by the director of public works for the City of Savannah, and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of portions of certain streets and lanes in the City of Savannah, Georgia, that is to say," etc., (naming a number of streets and lanes), "Macon street from the east side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street," etc., "all under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll for the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Macon street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the east side of Bull street and extending to the west side of Drayton, and at the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same 9n the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts 14 418 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordafned, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 9, 1910. Assessment RollHarris Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Harris street from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, adopted December 19, 1906. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah, and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ord;nance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of portions of certain streets and lanes in the City of Savannah, Georgia, that is to say," etc., (naming a number of streets and lanes), "Harris street from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street, etc., "all under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 419 that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Harris street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the west side of Bull street and extending to the east side of Whitaker street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due autentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by. the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 9, 1910. Assessment RollEast Broad Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of East Broad street from the south property line of Bay street to the south property line of Oglethorpe avenue made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, adopted June 30, 1909. 420 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on .Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 30, 1909, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of East Broad street from the south property line of Bay street to the'south property line of Oglethorpe avenue, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to East Broad street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the south property line of Bay street and extending to the south property line of Oglethorpe avenue. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 30, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on ' the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including the street railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 9, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 421 Assessment RollPerry Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Perry street from the east side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, adopted December 19, 1906. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah, and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of portions of certain streets and lanes in the City of Savannah, Georgia, that is to say," etc., (naming a number of streets and lanes), "Perry street from the east side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street," etc., "all under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvement to Perry street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the east'side of Bull street and extending to the west side of Drayton street, and at the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed 422 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 9, 1910. Uniformity of Sidewalks By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to secure uniformity in the sidewalks, roadways and grass plats of the section herein mentioned. Be it ordained, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the following shall be the width of the sidewalks, roadways and grass plats of the streets in the corporate limits of the City of Savannah bounded north by Estill avenue, east by Habersham street, south by Fifty-second street and west by Bull street. FirstStreets one hundred (100) feet in width shall have a grass plat in the center twenty (20) feet wide and a roadway on each side thereof twenty-five (25) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof next to curb line of four (4) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof next to grass plats of seven (7) feet in width. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 423 SecondStreets seventy-five (75) feet in width shall have a roadway in the center of forty-five (45) feet in width, and grass plats on either side thereof next to curb line of four (4) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof next to grass plat of seven (7) feet in width. ThirdStreets sixty (CO) feet in width shall have a roadway in the center of thirty (30) feet in width and grass plats on either side thereof next to curb line of four (4) feet in width and sidewalks on either side thereof next to grass plat of six (6) feet in width. FourthBe it further ordained, That all ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 23, 1910. House Drainage System By Alderman Barrow An ordinance to require connections with the existing house drainage system. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That within the thirty (30) days from the passage of this ordinance, all property owners in the corporate limits of the City of Savannah shall make connections.with the existing house drainage system and in accordance with the ordinance of Council passed June 15, 1900, and entitled: "An ordinance for the regulation of house drainage and the house drainage system," contained in section 1009, et seq., of MacDonell's Code of Savannah, published in 1907. Any person failing to make the connection within the time mentioned shall be subject, upon conviction in the 424 MAYOR'S AXMUAL REPORT Police Court of the City of Savannah, to a fine not exceeding ten (10) dollars, and imprisonment not to exceed five (5) days, either or boch in the discretion of the court, and each day's failure to connect, after thirty (30) days from the passage of this ordinance, shall constitute a separate and distinct offense and be punished accordingly. The agent of an owner not residing in the City of Savannah, shall be held responsible for the failure to connect and be punished for such failure. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the provisions of this ordinance shall not be construed so as to annul any provisions in the existing ordinances, save as to the time for making the connection, and shall be construed as being cumulative to the present ordinances. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. A motion was made by Alderman Guckenheimer and same seconded that 5,000 copies of above ordinance be printed and distributed among property owners. Ordinance passed February 23, 1910. Near Beer By Committee on Near Beer An ordinance to provide additional regulations touching the conduct of business under the near beer license. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That all persons accepting a neer-beer license, or operating thereunder, shall be required to close and keep closed all entrances and exits, as may be required by the chief of police, except those MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 425 leading into the front street, and shall have such an arrangement of their premises, in which near-beer may be sold, as may be required by the chief of police, with a view of maintaining complete superveillance of the premises; and, further, the said premises shall be subject to inspection, at any time, by any representative of the municipal government. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That any person guilty of the violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance, or a refusal or failure to comply with the directions of the chief of police touching the arrangement of the premises, or refusing to permit the inspection provided for, shall, upon conviction before the Police Court of the City of Savannah, be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred (100) dollars, and imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, either or both in the discretion of the court, and in addition to this, his license shall be subject to revocation by the Mayor of the City of Savannah. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That the Mayor of the City of Savannah is hereby vested with the right and discretion to revoke a near-beer license whenever in his judgment the place is being conducted in a disorderly or improper manner. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed February 23, 1910. Wards By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to amend sections 1427, 1428, 1430 and 1438 of the Municipal Code of Savannah, touching the laying out of that part of the city lying between Estill avenue on the 14A 426 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT north, Habersham street on the east, Bull street on the west and the coporate limits on the south. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That so much of the above mentioned sections which deal with the laying out the streets and lanes in the above mentioned territory, and in the laying out of Lawton, Davant, Watson and McKenna wards, is hereby amended so that the provisions touching these streets, lanes and wards shall hereafter read as follows: Abercorn street shall be 1,333.82 feet east from and parallel with Barnard street, and shall be 75 feet wide and shall be extended south to the city limits on the same lines as it is now laid out. Forty-fifth street shall be parallel to Forty-second street, west of Bull street, and 798 feet south thereof, as described in section 1428 MacDonell's Code of 1907, and shall be 60 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Forty-fifth street lane shall be south of Forty-fifth street, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet. It shall be 16 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street with the exception of the park space hereinafter mentioned. Forty-sixth street shall be south of Forty-fifth street lane, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet, and shall be 60 feet wide, and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Forty-sixth street lane shall be south of Forty-sixth street, parallel to and distant from it 95 feet. It shall be 16 feet wide, and extend from Habersham street to Bull street, with the exception of the park space hereinafter mentioned. Forty-seventh street shall be south of Forty-sixth street lane parallel to and distant from it 95 feet, and shall be 100 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 427 Forty-seventh street lane shall be south of Forty-seventh street, parallel to and distant from it 95 feet. It shall be 16 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Forty-eighth street shall be south of Forty-seventh street lane, parallel to and distant from it 95 feet, and shall be 60 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Forty-eighth street lane shall be south of Forty-eighth street, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet. It shall be 16 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street with the exception of the park space hereinafter mentioned. Forty-ninth street shall be south of Forty-eighth street lane, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet, and shall be 60 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Forty-ninth street lane shall be south of Forty-ninth street, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet. It shall be 16 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. r Fiftieth street shall be south of Forty-ninth street lane, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet, and shall be 60 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Fiftieth street lane shall be south of Fiftieth street, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet. It shall be 16 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street with the exception of the park space hereinafter mentioned. Fifty-first street shall be south of Fiftieth street lane, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet, and shall be 60 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Fifty-first street lane shall be south of Fifty-first street, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet. "It shall be 16 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street with the execption of the park space hereinafter mentioned. 428 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Fifty-second street shall be south of Fifty-first street, lane parallel to and distant from it 105 feet, and shall be 60 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Forty-fourth street lane shall be north of Forty-fifth street, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet. It shall be 16 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Forty-fourth street shall be north of Forty-fourth street, lane, parallel to and distant from it 105 feet, and shall be 60 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. Estill avenue lane shall be north of Forty-fourth street, parallel to and distant from it 110 feet. It shall be 16 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street. street shall extend from Estill avenue to Bull street, its northern line shall be contiguous to the southern line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway right of way, and its southern line shall be parallel to and 35 feet from its northern line. WARDS That portion bounded north by Estill avenue, south by Forty-seventh street, east by Abercorn street and west by Bull street shall be known and designated as Lawton ward. That portion bounded north by Forty-seventh street, south by the corporate limits, east by Abercorn street and west by Bull street shall be known and designated as Davant ward. The ordinance passed by Council June 2, 1909, defining the boundaries of the wards in the southeastern section of the city shall be amended so as to extend the western boundaries of Watson and McKanna wards to Abercorn street. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 9, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 429 Parks By Committee of the Whole An ordinance describing, locating and naming certain plots of land dedicated to the City of Savannah for parks. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That those certain plots of land conveyed to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah by Harry H. Lattimore, and others, and by deed bearing date the 31st day of January, 1910 (the said granters afterwards incorporating the Ardsley Park Land Company), which said plots of land are located in that section of the City of Savannah known as Lawton, Davant, Watson and McKanna wards, are hereby dedicated for public uses as parks; that is to say: a. All that rectangular plot of ground located between Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Bull and Abercorn streets, with its northern line beginning at a point two hundred and fifty (250) feet west of Abercorn street and extending westwardly two hundred (200) feet, with a rectangular depth of two hundred and twenty-six (226) feet, together with a street forty (40) feet wide outside of and east and west of said plot, shall be known and designated as Entelman Park. b. All that rectangular plot of ground located between Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Abercorn and Habersham streets, with its northern line beginning at Abercorn street and extending eastwardly two hundred (200) feet, with a rectangular depth of two hundred and six (206) feet, together with a street forty (40) feet wide outside of and east of said plot, shall be known and designated as Kavanaugh Park. c. All that rectangular plot of ground located between Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Bull and Abercorn streets, with its northern line beginning at Abercorn street and extending 430 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT westwardly two hundred (200) feet, with a rectangular depth of two hundred and twenty-six (226) feet, together with a street forty (40) feet wide outside of and west of said plot shall be known and designated as Lattimore Park. d. All that rectangular plot of ground located between Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Abercorn and Habersham streets, with its northern line beginning at Abercorn street and extending eastwardly two hundred (200) feet, with a rectangular depth of two hundred and twenty-six (226) feet, together with a street forty (40) feet wide outside of and east of said plot shall be known and designated as Vetsburg Park. e. All that rectangular plot of ground located between Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Bull and Abercorn streets, with its northern line beginning at a point of two hundred and fifty (250) feet west of Abercorn street and extending westwardly two hundred (200) feet, with a rectangular depth of two hundred and twenty-six (226) feet, together with a street forty (40) feet outside of and east and west of said plot, shall be known and designated as Gaudry Park. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 9, 1910. Savannah Development Company By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets An ordinance to authorize the making of the contract herein mentioned with the Savannah Development Company and the acquisition of streets and lanes as herein provided. * SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 431 Mayor of the City of Savannah be and he is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the Savannah Development Company, under which the said company will convey to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, by warranty title, approximately one hundred and seventy-two thousand (172,000) square feet of land for streets and lanes in lot No. two (2) of the Cumming lots facing on Lathrop avenue, im-- mediately west of the corporate limits of the City of Savannah and in the County of Chatham, and in accordance with a plan prepared by the City Engineer, under which contract the City of Savannah will grade, at the expense of the said Savannah Development Company, the streets and lanes contemplated by the plan of the improvement for which the said Savannah Development Company will pay and will accept by way of reinbursement the notes of the City of Savannah payable two (2) years after this date, without interest, for the cost of the said grading. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances a'nd parts of ordiances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 9, 1910. Keeping of Cows By Alderman Barrow An ordinance to amend an ordinance adopted August 11, 1909, entitled, "An ordinance to provide regulations touching the keeping of cows, dairies, milk, and the sale of milk; to provide for the election of an Inspector of Milk, and for other purposes designed to secure purity in the milk consumed in the City of Savannah." SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That Section 13 of the above entitled ordinance be and the same is hereby 432 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT amended so that the first sentence of Section 13 shall hereafter read as follows: "Be it further ordained, That every person or corporation desiring to sell, offering for sale, exposing for sale, disposing of, exchanging or delivering milk or cream in the City of Savannah or using milk in connection with a soda fountain or fruit stand and selling or exposing for sale milk as a part of any drink or beverage in the City of Savannah, shall make application to the Health Officer for a permit to do so. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained. That the notice to revoke a permit provided for in Section 13 shall be changed so as to read five days instead of ten. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordiances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 9, 1910. Assistant City Treasurer By Committee on Finance An ordinance to provide for the office of Assistant Treasurer of the City of Savannah. SECTION 1., Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Mayor and Finance Committee of the City of Savannah be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to select from the office force of the City Treasurer one of the said force to be known as Assistant Treasurer of the City of Savannah, the said selection to be made by the said Mayor and the said committee in writing. Upon such selection, the person so selected shall take the usual oath, and, thereupon, shall be known as the Assistant Treasurer and have all the powers and duties MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 433 incident to an assistant. He shall hold his office during the pleasure of the said Mayor and Finance Committee. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 23, 1910. Estill Avenue Lane By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to amend an ordinance adopted March 10, 1910, entitled in part, "An ordinance to amend sections 1427, 1428, 1430 and 1438 of the Municipal Code of the City of Savannah." SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That that part of an ordinance adopted March 10, 1910, entitled in part, "An ordinance to amend sections 1427, 1428, 1430 and 1438 of the Municipal Code of the City of Savannah," reading as follows: "Estill avenue lane shall be north of Forty-fourth street, parallel to and distant from it 110 feet. It shall be 18 feet wide and extend from Habersham street to Bull street," shall be amended and changed so as to read as follows: "Estill avenue lane shall be north of Forty-fourth street and shall be parallel to and distant from it 110 feet from Habersham to the right-of-way of the Savannah Electric Company, at which point it shall diverge and run in a northerly direction (adjacent to and parallel to said right-of-way) to the short diagonal street extending from Estill avenue to Bull street, (the name of which is left blank in the ordinance which is hereby amended). Estill avenue lane shall be 16 feet wide." 434 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 23, 1910. To Regulate Vehicles By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to regulate vehicles in the City of Savannah. SECTION" 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the following regulations be and they are hereby adopted as to the use of vehicles in the streets, lanes and thoroughfares of the City of Savannah, which regulations shall apply to everything on wheels or runners, except street cars, baby carriages and invalid chairs. a. In addition to vehicles specifically mentioned in previous ordinances, all vehicles shall carry at least one (1) light, which light, or its reflection, shall be easily visible from, all directions. This provision shall be effective on and after May 15, 1910. b. Drivers of all vehicles shall keep as near to the right curb as traffic conditions permit. c. Drivers of all vehicles deflecting or turning to the left shall indicate their intention to do so by extending the arm as a signal or guidance to those in rear. Drivers of all vehicles shall, in slowing and stopping, give a signal to those behind by extending the arm horizontally. Before backing ample warning shall be given by voice or extending arm, and while backing unceasing vigilance shall be exercised by the driver so as not to injure those behind. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 435 d. Drivers of all vehicles in turning into a street to the right shall keep close to the right curb. Drivers of all vehicles in turning into a street to the left shall swing wide of the left curb. Drivers of all vehicles proceeding east and west shall reduce speed so as not to exceed five miles an hour when about to cross or about to turn into any north or south street. e. When desiring to pass a street car ahead drivers of all vehicles shall pass on the right of said car. When a car stops to take on or let off passengers all vehicles going in the same direction shall reduce speed and keep reducing the speed and shall come to a standstill to avoid collision with any person about to board or alighting from said car. f. The owner of every motorcycle used or operated in the City of Savannah shall be required to register said motorcycle in.the same manner as automobiles, and shall display in a conspicuous position on the rear of said motorcycle the number under which it is registered. The terms of the ordinance governing automobiles, entitled "An ordinance to regulate automobiles in the City of Savannah, passed in Council, March 13, 1907, as amended" shall apply to motorcycles in so far as speed regulations and traffic regulations are concerned. This provision shall be effective on and after May 15, 1910. g. Any driver of a motorcycle or automobile, or any other vehicle, who escapes or attempts to escape after a collision of any kind in which he is involved, shall be subject to the penalties for violations of the terms of this ordinance. Drivers of all vehicles in any collision shall be required, upon request, to give their correct name and address, and the correct name and address of the owner of the vehicle. h. The use of acetylene searchlights or electric searchlights on any vehicle or street car is prohibited in the territory bounded on the south by north line of Estill avenue, 436 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT east by the east line of East Broad street, west by the west line of West Broad street, and on the north by the north line of Bay street. i. The Mayor shall appoint an Automobile License Committee composed of not more than three members of Council (in addition to the Mayor, who shall be ex-officio chairman of the committee), whose duty shall be to pass upon the qualifications of those desiring to drive automobiles or operate motorcycles. When satisfied as to the fitness of the applicant, said committee shall issue to said applicant a licence to operate an automobile or a motorcycle which license shall be shown on demand to any patrolman. Persons physicially or mentally incapacitated shall not be granted a license to drive or operate an automobile or motorcycle. After May 15, 1910, no person not duly licensed by the Automobile License Committee shall be permitted to operate or drive an automobile or motorcycle. A license granted by said committee shall be subject to revocation by the Mayor for cause. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That in case any vehicle, of any kind or character, except as herein excepted, is operated upon the streets, lanes or thoroughfares of the City of Savannah from and after the passage of this ordinance, except as herein before provided, without a compliance with the provisions of this .ordinance, the person operating the said machine and the owner thereof shall be subject, upon conviction before the Police Court of the City of Savannah, to a fine not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars and imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, either or both in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed March 23, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 437 Improvements of Certain Streets By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to amend section one (1) of that certain ordinance, adopted December 19, 1906, for the improvement of portions of certain streets and lanes in the City of Savannah, set forth on pages 367, et seq., of the municipal reports of the City of Savannah for the year 1906. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the above ordinance adopted by Council December 19, 1906, referred to in the above title, be and the same is amended, in section one (1) of the said ordinance, in so far as it refers to the portion of Hull street which is between Bull and Drayton streets, by changing the width of roadway therein mentioned, between the said two streets, from twenty-two (22) feet to eighteen (18) feet, so that said portion shall hereafter read as follows: "Hull street from the east side of Bull street to the west side of Drayton street, eighteen (18) feet in width, and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street twenty-two (22) feet in width." SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed April 6, 1910. To Correct an Omission in the Tax Ordinance By the Committee of the Whole * An ordinance to correct an omission in the Tax ordinance adopted December 29, 1909, and the preceding ordinance as herein stated. 438 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Whereas, on the 26th day of February, 1908, an ordinance was passed by the Council of the City of Savannah, touching the business tax on telephone or telegraph companies or exchanges so as to declare that this was for business done exclusively within the City of Savannah and not including any business done to or from, points without the State and not including any business done for the government of the United States, its officers or agents; And whereas, this ordinance, passed on the said 26th day of February, 1908, which was declaratory of the intent and purpose of the said tax, has never been repealed and there has never been any purpose to repeal or modify the same, although, by an inadvertence, the language quoted has not appeared in the pamphlets containing the tax ordinance for 1909 and that for 1910; Wherefore, Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled: SECTION 1. That the business or specific tax on telephone or telegraph companies or exchanges, appearing on page sixteen (16), lines twenty-three (23) and twenty-four (24) of the printed pamphlet containing the ordinance adopted December 29, 1909, entitled "An ordinance to assess and levy taxes and raise revenue for the City of Savannah; for the regulation of certain kinds of business in the corporate and jurisdictional limits of said city; fixing penalties for the violation of the revenue ordinances of said city, and for other purposes connected with taxes and revenue of said city," is intended to read and shall read as follows: "Telephone or telegraph companies or exchanges, for business done exehissively within the City of Savannah and not including any business done to or from points without the State and not including any business done for the government of the United States, its officers or agents, four hundred ($400) dollars each, without discount." ' MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT ' 439 SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the tax ordinance adopted December 30, 1908, should contain the same restrictive words touching the business intended to be taxed, this tax, however, under the last-named ordinance, being in the sum of six hundred ($600) dollars. And the said words are hereby declared to be a part of said ordinance. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed April 20, 1910. To Regulate Vehicles By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to amend an ordinance entitled, "An ordinance to regulate vehicles in the City of Savannah." SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the ordinance entitled, "An ordinance to regulate vehicles in the City of Savannah," passed in Council March 23, 1910, be and the same is hereby amended so that sub, section "F" of said ordinance shall be construed so as to require motorcycles to be registered hereafter in the office of the Chief of Police. SBC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 4, 1910. 440 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT To Regulate Automobiles By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to amend an ordinance entitled, "An ordinance to regulate automobiles in the City of Savannah." SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the ordinance entitled, "An ordinance to regulate automobiles in the City of Savannah," passed in Council on March 13, 1907, and amended March 19 and April 2, 1907, be and the same is hereby amended by striking from section one (1) of said ordinance as amended, the works "Clerk of Council" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Chief of Police," and by striking from section one (1), wherever they occur, the works "by the said clerk," so that said section one (1) of said ordinance, as amended, shall require that all automobiles shall be registered hereafter in the office of the Chief of Police. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 4, 1910. Assessment RollThirty-sixth Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Thirty-sixth street from the west property line of Burroughs street to the west property line of Florance street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 30, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 441 statement and assessment roll prepared and submitted by the director of public works for the City of Savannah, and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 30, 1909, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of Thirty-sixth street, in the City of Savannah, from the west property line of Burroughs street to the west property line of Florance street, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Thirty-sixth street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the west property line of Burroughs street and extending to the west property line of Florance street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 30, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of the Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 4, 1910. 442 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT To Regulate Vehicles By Alderman Gordon An ordinance to amend paragraph "h" of section 1 of the ordinance adopted March 23, 1910, and entitled: "An ordinance to regulate vehicles in the City of Savannah." SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That paragraph "h" of section 1 of the above entitled ordinance be and the same is hereby amended by inserting after the words "electric searchlights" and before the word "on" of said paragraph, the words "with a lens diameter of more than three inches," so that said paragraph, as amended, shall read as follows: "h. The use of acetylene searchlights or electric searchlights with a lens diameter of more than three inches on any vehicle or street car is prohibited in the territory bounded on the south by north line of Estill avenue; east by the east line of East Broad street; west by the west line of West Broad street, and on the north by the north line of Bay street." SEC. '2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 4, 1910. Bonaventure Cemetery By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to provide for the care of lots in the Evergreen, commonly known as-the Bonaventure Cemetery, and the Laurel Grove Cemetery. Whereas, on the llth day of July, 1907 the Evergreen Cemetery Company of Bonaventure conveyed to the Mayor MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 443 and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, by its deed of that date, recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham county, Georgia, in deed book 9 Ms, page 303, that tract or parcel of land situate and being in Chatham county, Georgia, commonly known as the Bonaventure Cemetery and sometimes as the Evergreen Cemetery, being a portion of the tract known as Bona venture originally conveyed by Josiah Tattnall to Peter Wiltberger, father of William H. Wiltberger, all of which will more fully appear by reference to the said deed: And whereas, by an agreement between the Evergreen Cemetery Company of Bonaventure and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, bearing even date with the said deed, the said municipal corporation, in consideration of the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars and the conveyance to it of fifteen (15) shares of the capital stock of the Southwestern Railroad Company and eight (8) shares of the capital stock of the Merchants National Bank of Savannah, and the turning over to it of the cash on hand, in accordance with paragraph 5 of said agreement, agreed and covenanted with the said cemetery company that it would preform all of the obligations which had been assumed by the said cemetery company, or devolving upon it, under the contracts mentioned in the said agreement with reference to seventeen (17) persons, and estates, whose names are set forth in the said agreement, touching the perpetual care of their lots under the terms of the said agreement, the said parties being thus stated in the second paragraph of the said agreement, namely: Edward Paddleford, John Stoddard, George L, Cope, Mrs. C. F. Mills, F. Kuck, A. Reppard, A. L. Hartridge, estate Jane Patterson, C. C. Casey, estate Sarah E. Miller, C. C. Talliaferro, Mrs. E. L. W. Clinch, J. H. M. Clinch, W. S. Chisholm, Alice V. Reitze, estate M. A. Hardee and estate Whilliam H. Wiltberger. And whereas, it is now desired to make proper appropriations and provisions looking to the perpetual care of the said lots owned by the said parties and estates hereinbefore men- 444 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT tioned, and other lots as to which provision may be hereafter made. Wherefore, it is ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, as follows: SECTION- 1. Be it ordained, That it is hereby made the duty of the Park and Tree Commission to care for the lots of the said seventeen (17) parties and estates as fully and completely as the said Evergreen Cemetery Company was bound to do under contracts with the said cemetery company and an appropriation of two hundred and forty (240) dollars a year shall be made by the City of Savannah for the care of said lots. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That in the future, when the said municipal corporation shall accept the trust for the care and maintenance of other lots in said Bonaventure Cemetery and in Laurel Grove Cemetery, that the basis of charge for this service shall be a cash payment of three hundred ($300) dollars for lots of four hundred (400) square feet, or less; three hundred and seventy-five ($375) dollars for lots over four hundred (400) square feet and not exceeding five hundred (500) square feet, and seventy-five ($75) dollars additional for each additional one hundred (100) square feet, or any part thereof. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That the funds paid in by parties for the care of their lots shall be invested by the City of Savannah in securities, to be approved by the Finance Committee and confirmed by Council, which securities shall be registered in the name of the City Treasurer as trustee of this fund, and any transfer of these registered securities shall be made by the said trustee, with the joint approval of the Chairman of the Finance Committee, and any and all transfers or changes in the investment of these funds shall be reported to Council at the first meeting next succeeding such transfer or change. All cash payments heretofore received for the pur- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 445 poses contemplated shall be turned over to the said trustee to be invested as indicated herein, and the said trustee shall be bonded in a proper sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, or such smaller amount as the Finance Committee may, in the future, determine to be adequate, the premium on said bond to be paid by the City of Savannah. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That the two hundred and forty ($240) dollars to be annually appropriated for the maintenance of the lots of the parties and estates hereinbefore mentioned, which the City of Savannah took over from the Evergreen Cemetery Company, and the revenue from any and all securities hereafter purchased under the terms of this ordinance, shall be turned over to the Park and Tree Commission of the City of Savannah, with the condition that the revenue therefrom and the said securities shall be used by the said commission only for the maintenance in perpetuity of the lots for which the parties or estates owning the same have paid the cash contemplated by this ordinance. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained, That the obligation incurred by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah and the duty of the Park and Tree Commission hereunder will be to at all times maintain in good order and condition the lot or lots as to which the trust is accepted and the payment made, and that it will cause the grass to be cut, the trees and shrubbery to be trimmed, the grave mounds preserved in order and the rubbish removed from the lot or lots as often as shall be necessary, except that the contract with Mrs. E. L. W. Clinch, under the agreement hereinbefore mentioned with the Evergreen Cemetery Company, assumes the additional obligation to keep the grass in good condition, furnish water and expend five ($5) dollars per annum in fertilizing her lots, and the contract with W. S. Chisholm provides that his lot be kept in perfect condition, having same raked when needed, and for the cultivation of a grass plot of the lot and fertilizing the lot each year and supplying water each year without water rent; and the contract with the estate of William H. Wilt- 446 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT berger provides simply for the perpetual keeping in order of his burial ground or lot. SEC. 6. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 18, 1910. Unlawful to Connect any Auto Garage with the House Drainage System By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to make it unlawful to connect any auto garage with the house drainage system, or to continue such connections. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That hereafter it shall not be lawful to connect any auto garage with the house drainage system of the City of Savannah, or to maintain, or continue, any such connection that may have heretofore been made. This ordinance is not to be construed to apply to such connections as are intended and used for ordinary toilet purposes only. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That any person violating this ordinance, or any provision thereof, shall be subject, upon conviction before the Police Court of the City of Savannah, to a fine not to exceed fifty (50) dollars and imprisonment not to exceed ten (10) days, either or both in the discretion of the court, and each day's continuance of the connection hereinbefore prohibited shall be held and deemed a separate and distinct offense, and punished accordingly. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 447 parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 18, 1910. Negotiating Loans on Real Estate By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to amend an ordinance entitled, "An ordinance to assess and levy taxes and raise revenue for the City of Savannah," etc., passed December 29, 1909, known as the tax ordinance for 1910, by striking a portion thereof relating to a tax for negotiating loans on real estate. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, That the ordinance entitled, "An ordinance to assess and levy taxes and raise revenue for the City of Savannah," etc., passed in Council December 29, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended by striking therefrom the language, to be found in lines 3 to 7 inclusive on page 21 of the printed pamphlet, reading as follows: "Agents, attorneys at law, brokers and all other persons negotiating, or-advertising or offering to negotiate, loans on real estate (except real estate breakers negotiating loans in immediate connection with sales or purchases made by or through them) twentyfive ($26.00) dollars." SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed May 18, 1910. 448 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Improvement of Estill Avenue By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Estill avenue from the east property line of Bull street to the west property line of Waters' avenue, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, That the Director of Public Works of the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Estill avenue, in the City of Savannah, from the east property line of Bull street to the west property line of Waters' avenue, two (2) roadways of asphalt blocks twenty-five (25) feet in width each between the curbing, with a grass plat twenty (20) feet in width between the said two roadways, and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing, and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch-basins, drains, crossings, and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadways on said portion of Estill avenue. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the totel cost of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the City Treasury and the other two-thirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on the said portion of Estill avenue to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 440 The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Estill avenue to be improVed, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained. That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 1, 1910. 15 450 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Livery Stables By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to prohibit the use of the streets of the City of Savannah by the proprietors of livery stables. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That, hereafter it shall not be lawful for the proprietor of any livery stable in the City of Savannah to use a public street in said city for the purpose of washing thereon his live stock, or for the purpose of cleaning thereon his vehicles, or for the purpose of keeping standing thereon his live stock when not attached to any vehicle, and when the purpose is to use the public street rather than the stable. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That any person violating this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction before the Police Court of the City of Savannah, to a fine not to exceed twenty-five ($25) dollars, and to imprisonment not to exceed ten (10) days, either or both in'the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 1, 1910. Automobiles By Alderman Gordon An ordinance to provide further regulations touching the use of automobiles in the City of Savannah. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That it shall MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 451 be unlawful for any person to use upon any automobile, or similar vehicle, in the City of Savannah, any number except that number which has been assigned to him by the Chief of Police, after the registration thereof, when said automobile, or similar vehicle, is being operated in any part of the corporate limits of the City of Savannah. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained. That it shall be unlawful for any officer or member of the fire department or of the police department of the City of Savannah to operate or propel an automobile, or similar vehicle, anywhere within the corporate limits of the City of Savannah, at a speed exceeding thirty (30) miles an hour, no matter what the emergency may be, and when the automobile! or similar vehicle, is used, and no emergency for speed exists, such as going to a fire or a hurry in order to accomplish an arrest, said officer or member of the fire department or police department shall observe the speed limit of the present ordinances. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction before the Police Court of the City of Savannah, to a fine not to exceed twenty-five ($25) dollars and to imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, either or both in the discretion of the court. SEC. .4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 15, 1910. Improvement of Abercorn Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Abercorn street from the south property line of Bay street to the north 452 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT property line of Oglethorpe avenue, and from the north property line of Harris street to the north property line of Gaston street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887. SECTION !. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, That the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Abercorn street, in the City of Savannah, from the south property line of Bay street to the north property line of Oglethorpe avenue and from the north property line of Harris street to the north property line of Gaston street, a roadway of asphalt blocks. The intersecting streets and lanes and around the squares are to be paved to property line, excluding the intersections of Broughton, Harris and Jones streets, previously paved. The said roadway to be forty-five (45) feet in width between the curbing, except around Reynolds, Oglethorpe, LaFayette and Calhoun squares, where said roadway is to be of the following width: On the east and west sides of said squares thirty (30) feet wide, Bryan street roadway at Reynolds Square to be twenty-nine (29) feet wide and Congress street roadway at Reynolds Square to be twenty-seven and eight-tenths (27.8) feet wide; State street roadway at Oglethorpe Square to be twenty-eight and five-tenths (28.5) feet wide, and York street roadway at Oglethorpe Square to be twenty-nine and fivetenths (29.5) feet wide; Harris and Charlton street roadway at LaFayette Square to be thirty (.'JO) feet wide, and Taylor and Gordon street roadways at Calhoun Square to be thirty (30) feet wide. And they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch-basins, drains, crossings, resetting curb, and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Abercorn street. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 453 SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That a street railroad company having tracks running through said portion of Abercorn street to be improved under this ordinance, is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of the tracks of said street railroad company, with asphalt blocks, as the work progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company the said director of public works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad company. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost . of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a street railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury and the other two-thirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said portion of Abercorn street to be improved under this ordinance according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Abercorn street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and they shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting 454 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT parcels, including the street and lane intersections and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (.'JO) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 29, 1910. Improvement of Barnard Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Barnard street from the south property line of State street to the north property line of Gaston street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 455 SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia.approved October 1, 1887, that the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, bfe and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Barnard street, in the City of Savannah, from the south property line of State street to the north property line of Gaston street, a roadway of asphalt blocks. The intersecting streets and lanes around the squares are to be paved to property line, excluding the intersections of Oglethorpe avenue, Liberty and Jones streets previously paved. The roadway to be forty-five (45) feet in width between the curbing, except around Telfair place, Orleans, Pulaski and Chatham squares, where said roadway is to be of the following width: On the east and west sides of said squares thirty (30) feet wide, York street roadway at Telfair Place to be twenty-nine (29) feet wide; Hull street roadway at Orleans Square to be thirty-one and seven-tenths (31.7) feet wide, and Perry street roadway at Orleans Square to be thirty (30) feet wide; Harris and Charlton street roadways at Pulaski Square to be thirty (30) feet wide; and Taylor and Gordon street roadways at Chatham Square to be thirty (30) feet wide. And they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings, resetting curb, and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Barnard street. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That a street railroad company having tracks running through said portion of Barnard street to be improved under this ordinance, is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of the track of said street railroad company, with asphalt blocks, as the work progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company the said director of public works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad company. 45t> MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT SEC. 3. Be it further ordained. That after the total cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a street railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury and the other twothirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said portion of Barnard street to be improved under this ordinance according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Barnard street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata. as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained. That after the improvements hereinbefore provided for have been completed, the said director and the committee shall prepare and submit to Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 457 with costs, against the persons and property aforsaid, which execution shall be made, and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 29, 1910. Improvement of Forty-first Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Forty-first street from the west property line of Bull street to the west property line of Whitaker street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887. SEC. 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia .approved October 1, 1887, that the director of public works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Forty-first street, in the City of Savannah, from the west property line of Bul street to the west property line of Whitaker street, a roadway of asphalt blocks thirty-two (32) feet in width between curbing, intersecting street paved to property line, and they are authorized and directed to lay ISA 458 MAYOR'S ANXUAL REPORT the necessary curbing and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings, and all other things incident to the construction of said roadway on said portion of Forty-first street. SEC. 2. Be it ordained, That a street railroad company having tracks running through said portion of Forty-first street to be improved under this ordinance, is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of the tracks of said street railroad company, with asphalt blocks, as the work progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company the said director of public works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad company. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a street railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury and the other twothirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on the said portion of Forty-first street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Forty-first street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 45!) Council of the City of Savannah, a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution for the amounts, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 29, 1910. Improvement of Montgomery Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Montgomery street from the south property line of Congress street to the north 460 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT property line of Broughton street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, that the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Montgomery street, in the City of Savannah, from the south property line of Congress street to the north property line of Broughton street, a roadway of asphalt blocks forty-five (45) feet in width between curbing, intersecting lane paved to property line, and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing and do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings, and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Montgomery street. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That a street railroad company having tracks running through said portion of Montgomery street to be improved under this ordinance, is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of the tracks of said street railroad company, with asphalt blocks, as the work progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company the said director of public works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad company. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a street railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury and the other twothirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on the said portion of Montgomery street to be improved under this ordinance, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 461 according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Montgomery street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of .the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue executions for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and shall such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of 462 MAYOR'S AXXUAL REPORT the tity treasurer to issue executions against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 29, 1910. Uniformity of Sidewalks By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets An ordinance to amend an ordinance adopted February 9, 1910, entitled, "An ordinance to secure uniformity in the sidewalks, roadways, grass plats, etc., in the streets covered by this ordinance." SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the above entitled ordinance be and the same is hereby amended, so that, as amended, subdivision one (1) of section one (1) shall read as follows: "Streets forty (40) feet in width, shall have a roadway in the center thereof of twenty-eight (28) feet in width with grass plats on either side thereof next to curb of two (2) feet in width and cement sidewalks on either side thereof next to property line of four (4) feet in width." SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed June 29, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 463 Improvement of Thirty-seventh Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Thirty-seventh street from the west property line of Bull street to the east property line of the Ogeechee road, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 22, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah passed June 22, 1909, and entitled, "An ordinance for the improvement of Thirty-seventh stifeet from the west property line of Bull street to the east property line of the Ogeechee road, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Thirty-seventh street, in the City of Savannah, Ga., beginning at the west property line of Bull street and extending to the east property line of Ogeechee road. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to twothirds of the cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of 464 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including the street railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed July 13, 1910. Official StatementMontgomery Street & By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Montgomery street from the south property line of Broughton street to the north curb line of Liberty Square, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 22, 1909. SECTION" 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah, and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah passed June 22, 1909, and entitled, "An ordinance for the improvement of Montgomery street from the south property line of Broughton street to the north curb line of Liberty Square, under the' terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll for the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 465 and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Montgomery street, in the City of Savannah,' Ga., beginning at the south property line of Bfroughton street and extending to the north curb line of Liberty Square. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer .to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed July 13, 1910. Assessment RollHarmon Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Harmon street from the north property line of Gwinnett street to the south 466 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT property line of Wheating street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 22, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah, and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah passed June 22, 1909, and entitled, "An ordinance for the improvement of Harmon street from the north property line of Gwinnett street to the south property line of Wheaton street, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Harmon street, in the City of Savannah, Ga., beginning at the north property line of Gwinnett street and extending to the south property line of Wheaton street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah passed June 22, 1909,with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained. That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 467 SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed July 13, 1910. Assessment RollHull Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Hull street from the west side of Drayton street to the east side of Bull street and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, adopted December 19, 1906, and amended April 6, 1910. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, and entitled, "An ordinance for the improvement of portions of certain streets and lanes in the City of Savannah, Ga., that is to say, etc., (naming a number of streets and lanes), Hull street from the west side of Drayton street to the east side of Bull street and from the west side of Bull street to the east side of Whitaker street," etc., "all under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," and as amended by an ordinance of the City of Savannah passed April 6, 1910, and entitled "An ordinance to amend section one (1) of that certain ordinance adopted December 19, 1906, for the improvement of portions of certain streets and lanes in the City of Savannah, set forth on pages 367 et seq. of the municipal reports of the City of 468 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Savannah for the year 1906," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinances, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Hull street, in the City of Savannah, Ga.. beginning at the west side of Drayton street, and extending to the east side of Bull street, and at the west side of Bull street and extending to the east side of Whitaker street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed December 19, 1906, and amended April 6, 1910, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed July 13 1910. Pensions By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to provide for a pension to the widow of the late F, V. Hansen. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 469 Whereas, F. V. Hansen, a former patrolman of the City of Savannah, sustained a mortal wound while in the active discharge of his duty and in attempting to make an arrest while in uniform, from which he subsequently died, and, because of these facts, it is thought proper to grant a pension to his widow as herein provided. SECTION 1. Wherefore, be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That, commencing six (6) months after the date of the death of the said patrolman a pension at the rate of twenty-five (25) dollars per month shall be paid by the City of Savannah monthly during widowhood, to Mrs. Etta Marr Hansen, the widow of the said F. V. Hansen, the same to terminate if and when she remarries. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed July 13, 1910. Weeds By Alderman Barrow An ordinance to provide for the cutting and removal from private property in the City of Savannah, or the destruction thereon, weeds and other rank vegetable growth upon notice by the health officer. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That hereafter it shall be the duty of the owners of private property in the City of Savannah and of their agents in charge of said property upon notice from the health officer of the City of Savannah, to have cut and removed from private property in the said city weeds and other rank vegetable growth, removing such 470 ' MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT weeds and other rank vegetable growth to the property line of said lot, or to destroy the same by fire on said lot. Should the said weeds and other rank vegetable growth not be removed or destroyed, as herein required, within ten (10) days after said notice from the health officer, then, and in that event, the owner or owners of said property, or the agents thereof having the same in charge, shall, upon conviction in the Police Court of the City of Savannah of a failure to cut and remove, or destroy, as herein required, be subject to a fine not to exceed fifty (50) dollars or imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, either or both in the discretion of the court. Provided however, that this ordinance shall not go into effect for ten (10) days after its passage. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed July 13, 1910. Assessment RollPaulsen Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Paulsen street from the north property line of Henry street to the south property line of Gwinnett street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 22, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of Paulsen MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 471 street from the north property line of Henry street to the south property line of Gwinnett street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Paulsen street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the north property line of Henry street and extending to the south property line of Gwinnett street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including the Street Railway Company a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. * Ordinance passed July 27, 1910. 472 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Improvement of Hall Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Hall street from the west property line of Price street to the east property line of Habersham street and from the west property line of Whitaker street to the east property line of Barnard street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, that the director of public works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Hall street, in the City of Savannah, from the west property line of Price street to the east property line of Habersham street, and from the west property line of Whitaker street to the east property line of Barnard street, a roadway of asphalt blocks forty (40) feet in width between curbing, and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Hall street. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury and the other two-thirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on the said portion of Hall street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Hall street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue executions for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 7, 1910. 474 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Improvement of Henry Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Henry street from the west property line of Price street to the west property line of Magnolia street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, that the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Henry street, in the City of Savannah, from the west property line of Price street to the east property line of Bull street (excluding Habersham and Abercorn streets, which have already been paved with vitrified brick, and Drayton street, which has been paved with asphalt), a roadway of asphalt blocks thirty (30) feet in width between curbing, and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing, and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Henry street. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury, and the other two-thirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on the said portion of Henry street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Henry street to be MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 475 improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the tuty treasurer to issue executions for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 7, 1910. 476 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Assessment RollWest Broad Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of West Broad street from the south property line of Thirty-first street to the south property line of Fortieth street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 22, 1909. SECTION' 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the director of public works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of West Broad street from the south property line of Thirty-first street to the south property line of Fortieth street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled, "Statement showing the cost of improvements to West Broad street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the south property line of Thirty-first street and extending to the south property line of Fortieth street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 477 to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills so sent be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. * Ordinance passed September 7, 1910. Assessment RollWaldburg Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to established the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Waldburg street from the east property line of Drayton street to the west property line of East Broad street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 30, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 30, 1909, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of Waldburg street, in the City of Savannah, from the east property line of Drayton street to the west property line of East Broad street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost 478 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT of improvements to Waldburg street in the City of Savannah, Ga., beginning at the east side of Drayton street and extending to the west side of East Broad street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 30, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bills so sent be not paid then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Passed September 7, 1910. Assessment RollFortieth Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Fortieth street from the west property line of Jefferson street to the east property line of West Broad street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 22, 1909. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 470 SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for th$ City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of Fortieth street from the west property line of Jefferson street to the east property line of West Broad street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to 'be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinances, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Fortieth street, in the City of Savannah, Ga,, beginning at the west property line of Jefferson street and extending to the east property line of West Broad. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the trasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including the Street Railway Company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bill be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 7, 1910. 4SO MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Harbor Regulations By Committee on Harbor and Wharves An ordinance to repeal rule 8 of the harbor regulations, appearing as paragraph 8 of section 1467 of MacDonell's Code of Savannah, adopted in 1907. SECTION- 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That rule 8 of the harbor regulations appearing as paragraph 8 section 1467 of MacDonell's Code of Savannah, adopted in 1907, to be found on page 363 of said code, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained that all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 21, 1911. Savannah Electric Company Franchise Over Forty-fourth Street By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to grant to the Savannah Electric Company, its successors and assigns, a franchise over Forty-fourth street Abercorn street and Fiftieth street. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same, That in consideration of the removal by the Savannah Electric Company of its tracks from the present right-of-way owned by it, which now crosses diagonally the lads of the Ardsley Park Land Corporation and the Granger tract, and the relocation of said track on Forty-fourth street, Abercorn street and Fiftieth street, the Savannah Electric Company, its successors and assigns, is MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 481 hereby granted a franchise to lay and maintain its street railroad in and along Forty-fourth street, between its present right-of-way and Abercorn street, over and along Abercorn street, between Forty-fourth street and Fiftieth street, and over and along Fiftieth street from Abercorn street to its present right-of-way, with all connecting curves over said route; and to operate its cars, passenger, freight and garbage, over said route. The franchise herein granted is unlimited as to time and includes in addition to and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, permission (1) to lay at the present time a single track with a turnout on Fiftieth street, between Lincoln street and Price street; (2) to lay a second or double track on said streets at any time in the furure that such additional construction may be deemed necessary by the said Savannah Electric Company in furtherance of its business; (3) to relocate the Fiftieth street turnout or to place additional turnouts on the streets aforementioned at any time in the future in the discretion of the said Savannah Electric Company ; (4) to construct and maintain in and over said streets all necessary overhead equipment, including poles and wires; (5) to operate passenger, freight and garbage cars over said route. Provided, however, that this ordinance shall not go into effect or become operative until January 1, 1911. SEC. 2. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be and the same is hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 21, 1910. Tax On Circuses By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to amend the tax ordinance as to the tax on circuses or similar exhibitions. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That so much it 482 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT of tax ordinance adopted December 2S. 1909, as provides for the taxation of circuses or similar exhibitions, to be found on lines 7 to 10 of page 12 of the printed ordinance, be and the same is hereby amended by adding after the word "performing" in the eighth line, the words "loading.unloading, hauling," so that hereafter this portion of the tax ordinance shall read as follows: "Every circus or similar exhibitions, with or without menagerie or tent, for each and every day performing, loading, unloading, hauling or parading in the city, $1,000, without discount." SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 21. 1910. Naming Certain Wards By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to provide for the laying out, defining and naming of certain wards within the corporate limits of the City of Savannah. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the following wards in the City of Savannah, are hereby laid out and designated; that is to say: That portion of the city bounded north by Louisville road, east by Magazine street, south by Gwinnett street extended, west by west line of Springfield plantation and Garden lot No. 90, shall be known and designated as Gibbons' ward. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 483 That portion bounded north by Louisville road, east by Stiles avenue, south by Gwinnett street extended and west by Magazine street, shall be known and designated as Morrison ward. That portion bounded north by Louisville road, east by right of way of Brow ditch, south by Gwinnett street and west by Stiles avenue, shall be known and designated as Williams' ward. That portion bounded north by Gwinnett street, east by Magnolia and Spring streets, south by Laurel Grove Cemetery and lot No. 97 Springfield plantation and west by Springfield canal, shall be known and designated as Daniell ward. That portion bounded north by lot No. 98 Springfield plantation, south and east by Spring street and west by Springfield canal, shall be known and designated as Noel ward. That portion bounded north by Hebrew Congregation lot and north line of front lot No. 4 Tanyard tract and Dixon street, east by west line of Wilson street, extended and Roberts street, south by Gwinnett street and west by Philpot and West Boundary streets, shall be known and designated as Turner ward. - ' SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be, and same are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed September 21, 1910. Savannah Electric Company By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to amend section one of the ordinance passed September 21, 1910, entitled; "An ordinance to grant 484 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT to the Savannah Electric Company, its successors and assigns, a franchise over Forty-fourth street, Abercorn street and Fiftieth street." SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, that section 1 of the above entitled ordinance is hereby amended by adding to said section the following: It is provided, however, that the street car tracks and switches on Abercorn street shall run through the center of the grass plat, and the lines for the extension of the railroad tracks and switches on said Forty-fourth, Abercorn and Fiftieth streets, shall be defined and determined by the city engineer of the City of Savannah and the lines so defined and determined by the city engineer shall govern and control. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained that all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed October 5, 1910. Hack Fares By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to provide for hack fares during the automobile races. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That during the llth day of November and the 12th day of November, 1910, set apart for the automobile races, it shall not be lawful to charge per passenger, as hack fare, between points in the City of Savannah, north of Thirty-seventh street to the grand stand on Waters' road, erected for the said races, exceeding fifty (50) cents, and, between points on and south of Thirty- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 485 seventh street and the grand stand, twenty-five (25) cents per passenger as hack fare. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That any person violating this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction before the Police Court of the City of Savannah, to a fine not to exceed twenty-five (25) dollars, and imprisonment not to exceed ten (10) days, either or both in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. City Map By Alderman Guckenheimer An ordinance to declare the map of the City of Savannah and vicinity prepared by John W. Howard, city engineer, the official map of the city. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the map of the City of Savannah and vicinity designated as "Map of City of Savannah and Vicinity, 1910, by John W. Howard, City Engineer," is hereby declared to be the official map of the City of Savannah, and the Mayor and the Clerk of Council are hereby authorized to attest the same accordingly. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. 486 MAYOR'S ANN? UAL REPORT Improvement of Bull Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Bull street from the north property line of Estill avenue to a point seventyseven (77) feet south of the south property line of Forty-third street (formerly King street), under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and pro\-isions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia.approved October 1, 1887, as amended, That the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Bull street, from .the north property line of Estill avenue to a point seventy-seven (77) feet south of the south property line of Forty-third street (formerly King street), a roadway of asphalt blocks forty-five (45) feet in width between curbing, and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing, and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Bull street. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained. That a railroad company having tracks running through said portion of Bull street to be improved under this ordinance, is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of track of said railroad company, with asphalt blocks, as the work progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company, the said director of public works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad company. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 487 SEC. 3. Be it further ordained. That after the total cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third of said total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury, and the other twothirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said portion of Bull street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of said work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Bull street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of improvement herein provided for, and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent, be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together 488 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT with costs, against the persons and property aforsaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and should such company fail.or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. Improvement West Broad Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of West Broad street from the south property line of Zubly street to the north property line of Liberty street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved, October 1, 1887, as amended, That the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on West Broad street, in the City of Savannah, from the south property line of 7.ubly street (commonly called West Broughton street) to MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 489 the north property line of Liberty street, a roadway of vitrified brick sixty-six (66) feet in width between the curbing, and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing, and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings, and all other things incident to the construction of said roadway on said portion of West Broad street. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That a railroad company having tracks running through said portion of West Broad street to be improved under this ordinance is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of track of said railroad company, with vitrified brick, as the work progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company, the said director of public works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad company. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained. That after the total cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury and the other twothirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on the said portion of West Broad street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of West Broad street to be improved and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. 16-A 490 MAYOR'S ANN UAL REPORT SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an. assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessmenc roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 4SH Improvement of Bay Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Bay street from the east property line of Jefferson street to the east property line of West Broad street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1,1887, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, as amended, That the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Bay street, in the City of Savannah, from the east property line of Jefferson street to the east property line of West Broad street, a roadway of vitrified brick forty-four (44) feet in width between the curbing, and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing, and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Bay street. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That a railroad company having tracks running through said portion of Bay street to be improved under this ordinance, is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of the tracks of said railroad company with vitrified brick, as the work progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company the said director of public works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad company. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost of said work, exclusive of that done by of for a railroad 492 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT company shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury and the other twothirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on the said portion of Bay street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed againsc the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Bay street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estaee so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 493 described therein, as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. . Improvement of Bay Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Bay street from the west property line of Barnard street to the east property line of Jefferson street, under the terms and provisions of an Act o'f the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1,1887, as amended: SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, as amended, that the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Bay street, in the City of Savannah, from the west property line of Barnard street to the east property line of Jefferson street, a roadway of vitrified brick fifty-seven (57) feet in width between the curbing, and they are authorized and directed to lay the neces- 4'.14 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT sary curbing, and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Bay street. SEC. 2. Be it ordained, That a railroad company having tracks running through said portion of Bay street to be improved under this ordinance is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of the tracks of said railroad company with vitrified brick as the work progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company the said director of public works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad company, SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a railroad company, shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury, and the other twothirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said portion of Bay street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Bay street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 4!)5 the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeage to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it maj' be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (.SO) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein, as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. 496 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Improvement of Estill Avenue By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of the street herein described from the south property line of Estill avenue to the east property line of Bull street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, as amended. SECTION' 1. Be it ordained, by tne Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, as amended, That the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on that unnamed street, located just east of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company's right-of-way (the same having been recently acquired from the estate of A. R. Lawton), from the south property line of Estill avenue to the east property line of Bull street, a roadway of asphalt blocks twenty-nine (29) feet in width between the curbing, and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing, and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings, and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said .portion of said street SEC. 2. Be it further ordained. That a railroad company having tracks running through said portion of said street to be improved under this ordinance, is hereby required to pave the width of its tracks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of track of said railroad company, with asphalt blocks, as the work progresses, and in the event this is not done by said company, the said director of public works and the said committee shall see to its being done at the expense of said railroad company. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 4!)7 SEC. 3. Be it further ordained. That after the total cost of said work, exclusive of that done by or for a railroad company shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury and the other twothirds by the persons owning at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on said portion of said street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of said work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of said street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained. That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall then become the duty of the citv treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together 498 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. Springfield Plantation By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets An ordinance to provide for the sale, at private sale, of lots 1 and 2, Springfield plantation. SECTION" 1 Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets be and it is hereby authorized to sell at private sale to a factory or manufactory lots one and two (1 and 2) Springfield plantation, in the City of Savannah, excepting the southern strip of said 2 lots, one hundred (100) feet in width, conveyed to the Brinson Railway under an ordinance of the Council of the City of Savannah adopted January 1, 1907. The price for the said lots shall be at the rate of four hundred ($400.00) dollars per acre, and the Mayor of the City of Savannah is authorized to convey the said lots at the price mentioned upon the receipts by the city of the price. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 499 SEC. 2. Be it futher "ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. Assessment RollBarnard Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Barnard street from the south property line of Gaston street to the north property line of Fortieth street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted, June 22, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it ordained, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed, June 22, 1909, and intitled: "Ari ordinance for the improvement of Barnard street from the south property line of Gaston street to the north property line of Fortieth street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvement to Barnard street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the south property line of Gaston street and extending to the north property line of Fortieth street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names 498 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein as are executions for city taxes. The said statement and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by any railroad company, and should such company fail or refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (.30) days after the presentation or sending of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said company and its property for said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 5. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. Springfield Plantation By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets An ordinance to provide for the sale, at private sale, of lots 1 and 2. Springfield plantation. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets be and it is hereby authorized to sell at private sale to a factory or manufactory lots one and two (1 and 2) Springfield plantation, in the City of Savannah, excepting the southern strip of said 2 lots, one hundred (100) feet in width, conveyed to the Brinson Railway under an ordinance of the Council of the City of Savannah adopted January Ifi, 1907. The price for the said lots shall be at the rate of four hundred ($400.00) dollars per acre, and the Mayor of the City of Savannah is authorized to convey the said lots at the price mentioned upon the receipts by the city of the price. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 499 SEC. 2. Be it futher ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2, 1910. Assessment RollBarnard Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Barnard street from the south property line of Gaston street to the north property line of Fortieth street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted, June 22, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it ordained, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll, prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed, June 22, 1909, and intitled: "An" ordinance for the improvement of Barnard street from the south property line of Gaston street to the north property line of Fortieth street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvement to Barnard street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the south property line of Gaston street and extending to the north property line of Fortieth street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 22, 1909, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names 500 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of the Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained. That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including the street railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bill be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 2. 1910. Assessment RollForty-first Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Forty-first street from the west property line of Bull street to the west property line of Whitaker street, made under an ordinance of of the City of Savannah adopted June 29, 1910. SECTION I. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That the statement and assessment roll prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 29, 1910, and MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 501 entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of Forty-first street Jfrom the west property line of Bull street to the west property line of Whitaker street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Forty-first street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the west property line of Bull street and extending to the west property line of Whitaker street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 29, 1910, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the name of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained. That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including any railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bill be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 30, 1910. 502 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Assessment RollNovember 30, 1910 By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Hall street from west property line of Price street to the east property line of Habersham street and from the west property line of Whitaker street to the east property line of Barnard street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted September 7, 1910. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, that the statement and assessment roll prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed September 7, 1910, and entitled "An ordinance for the improvement of Hall street from the west property line of Price street to the east property line of Habersham street and from the west property line of Whitaker street to the east property line of Barnard street, under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Hall street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the west property line of Price street and extending to the east property line of Habersham street, and from the west property line of Whitaker street to the east property line of Barnard. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed September 7, 1910, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said state- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT ment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bill be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November .SO, 1910. Assessment RollEstill Avenue By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of that certain street (unnamed) from the south property line of Estill avenue to the east property line of Bull street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted November 2, 1910. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll prepared and submitted to 'Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed November 2, 1910, and entitled, "An ordinance for the improvement of the street herein described, from the south property line of Estill avenue to the east property line of Bull street, under the terms 504 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia,approved October 1, 1887, as amended," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled, "Statement showing the cost of improvements to the unnamed street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the south property line of Estill avenue and extending to the east property line of Bull street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed November 2, 1910, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including any railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bill be not paid, then it shall be the duty.of the city treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 30, 1910. Assessment RollBull Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Bull street from MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 505 the north property line of Estill avenue and extending to a point seventy-seven (77) feet south of the south property line of Forty-third street, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted November 2, 1910. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That the statement and assessment roll prepared and submitted to Council by the Director of Public Works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed November 2, 1910, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of Bull street from the north property line of Estill avenue to a point seventy-seven (77) feet south of the south property line of Forty-third street (formerly King street), under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of Georgia .approved October 1, 1887, as amended," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordinance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled, "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Bull street, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the north property line of Estill avenue and extending to seventy-seven (77) feet south of the south property line 6t Forty-third street. As under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed November 2, 1910, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel, with the names of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including any railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bill be not paid. 506 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT then it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances iri conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 30, 1910. Assessment Roll Estill Avenue By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance to establish the official statement and assessment roll touching the improvement of Estill avenue from the east property line of Bull street to the west property line of Waters' avenue, made under an ordinance of the City of Savannah adopted June 1, 1910. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the statement and assessment roll prepared and' submitted to Council by the director of public works for the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes, under an ordinance of the City of Savannah, passed June 1, 1910, and entitled: "An ordinance for the improvement of Estill avenue from the east property line of Bull street to the west property line of Waters' avenue, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887," be and it is hereby declared to be the official statement and assessment roll of the said improvement under the said ordiance, the said statement and assessment roll being that entitled: "Statement showing the cost of improvements to Estill avenue, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, beginning at the east property line of Bull street and extending to the west property line of Waters' avenue. As under an ordinance of MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 507 the City of Savannah, passed June 1, 1910, with an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of this cost, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, and giving the sums chargeable to each parcel with the names -of the owners." And the Clerk of Council of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to mark the said statement and assessment roll filed as of this date, and to enter the same on the minutes of Council for due authentication and preservation, SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Treasurer of the City of Savannah is hereby directed to make out and send to the property owners, including any railroad company, a bill for the respective amounts due by them, as provided for by the said ordinance. Should the said bill be not paid, then it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue executions as provided for by the said ordinance, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and paits of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 30, 1910. Improvement of Bay Street By Committee on Streets and Lanes An ordinance for the improvement of Bay street from the west property line of West Broad street to the east property line of Fahm street, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature. of Georgia, approved October 1, 1887, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved 508 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT October 1, 1887, as amended, That the Director of Public Works of the City of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of said city, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build and construct on Bay street, in the City of Savannah, from the west property line of West Broad street to the east property line of Fahm street, a roadway of vitrified brick twenty-four (24) feet in width between the curbing, and they are authorized and directed to lay the necessary curbing and to do all the work in the way of grading, the placing of catch basins, drains, crossings, and all other things incident to the construction and completion of said roadway on said portion of Bay street. SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That after the total cost of said work shall have been ascertained, one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury, and the other two-thirds by the persons owning, at the date of the adoption of this ordinance, the real estate abutting on the said portion of Bay street to be improved under this ordinance, according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work is hereby assessed against the said abutting real estate and its owners, as aforesaid, according to frontage. The frontage of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estate abutting on said portion of Bay street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be, for all the intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owner of the cost of such work, according to frontage, in addition to its one-third of the entire cost as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 3. Be it further ordained, That after the improvement hereinbefore provided for has been completed, the said director and the said committee shall prepare and submit to the Council of the City of Savannah a statement showing the cost of the improvement herein provided for, and also an assessment roll showing as to two-thirds of the cost to be MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 50.) apportioned, how it is apportioned among the several abutting parcels, including the street and lane intersections, and giving the sum chargeable to each parcel with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and assessment roll by the Council of the City of Savannah, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same, as it may be ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (30) days after the presentation or sending of same, it shall then become the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution for the amount, together with costs, against the persons and property aforesaid, which execution shall be made and levied out of the property described therein as are executions for city taxes. SEC. 4. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed November 30, 1910. Time for Submission of Annual Reports by Heads of all Departments By Committee of the Whole An ordinance to provide for the time for submission of annual reports by the heads of all departments of the city, and giving the Mayor authority to suspend, without pay, for a failure to do so. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That it shall be the duty of the heads of all departments of the City to submit to the Mayor annual reports covering the work in their department for the preceding year, during the month of January of each year. 510 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, That should any of the heads of said departments fail to submit their said annual reports during the time specified above, that the Mayor, inhis discretion, shall have the authority to suspend such official, without pay, until the said report has been submitted. SBC. 3. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are herebyrepealed. Ordinance passed December 14, 19M. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 511 RESOLUTIONS Death of Alderman Abram Vetsburg By Committee of the Whole Resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled. That this Council learns with deep regret of the death of Alderman Abram Vetsburg; That the Council attend the funeral in a body; That the public offices of the city be closed during the hours of the funeral, and the flag be placed at half mast; and the City Hall be draped for a period of thirty (30) days; That the Mayor appoint a committee of five, of which the Mayor shall be chairman, to prepare and report at a subsequent meeting of Council, suitable resolutions concerning this sad event; And that in respect to his memory, the Council now take a recess until Tuesday, January 4, 1910, at 3 o'clock p. m., when they reassemble for the purpose of paying the last tribute of respect to its deceased member. Adopted by a rising vote and approved, January 3, 1910. 512 MAYOR'S AXX UAL REPORT Encroachments By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Mayor be and he is hereby instructed to appoint a committee of three members of Council to investigate all encroachments on the property of the City of Savannah and to cause the removal or adjustment of all illegal encroachments. Adopted and approved, January 12, 1910. In accordance with the above resolution his Honor the Mayor appointed the following committee: Aldermen Hull, Kavanaugh and Entelman. City Map By Alderman Guckenheimer Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen, in Council assembled, that the Streets and Lanes Committee are hereby authorized to expend the sum not exceeding $1,500 for the purpose of preparing a new map of the City of Savannah and the preparation of said map shall be done by the city engineer. The Streets and Lanes Committee are further authorized to have published 1,000 copies of this map, which copies are to be sold to the public by the city treasurer at a price to be fixedby said committee, and the proceeds of such sale turned over to the city. Adopted and approved, January 12, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 513 Extension House Drainage By Alderman Barrow: Resolved, That the Mayor be and he hereby is authorized to appoint a committee of Council, to be composed of five members, of which the Mayor shall be chairman, to procure and put in pamphlet form information in connection with the need of an extension of the house drainage system in Savannah. Adopted and approved, January 12, 1910. Daffin Park By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the appropriation of $2,000 for tree planting and the $2,000 for Daffin Park, mentioned in the budget for the year 1910, be and they are hereby made available at once. Adopted and approved, January'12, 1910. To Procure LandOpening Streets By Committee on Opening Streets Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled; Whereas, this municipal corporation has been unable, by contract, to procure the land hereinafter specified, or to agree with the owner thereof upon the compensation to be paid; therefore, be it 17 514 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Resolved, That the necessary and proper steps be taken by the Mayor of the City of Savannah and the city attorney looking to the condemnation of six thousand (6,000) square feet of land, for the opening and extension of Fiftieth street, belonging to Frances Johnson, from those certain lots of land situate and being in the City of Savannah, County of Chatham and State of Georgia, known as lots numbers ten (10) and fifteen (15) of block six (6) of the Barstow subdivision, Canty ward, said two lots being bounded on the north by lots sixteen (16) and nine (9), east by lot seven (7), south by an unnamed street, and west by lot eighteen (18) of the same subdivision; said two lots numbered 10 and 15 are fifty feet by one hundred and twenty feet each, and together have a total area of twelve thousand (12,000) square feet. This municipal corporation will need six thousand square feet from the said two lots for the opening and extension of Fiftieth street under its plan for this part of the city. Be it further Resolved, That Jordan F. Brooks of the City of Savannah be and he is hereby selected as the assessor to represent the municipal corporation in the said condemnation proceedings, and the Mayor of the City of Savannah is hereby directed, with the assistance of the city attorney, to give proper notice to the said owner and take all other and further steps necessary to the completion of the condemnation proceedings herein provided for. Adopted and approved, January 26, 1910. Opening Streets By the Committee on Opening Streets Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled; Whereas, this municipal corporation has been unable, by contract, to procure the land hereinafter specified, or to agree MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 515 with the owner thereof upon the compensation to be paid; therefore, be it Resolved, That the necessary and proper steps be taken by the Mayor of the City of Savannah and the city attorney, looking to the condemnation of fifty-one thousand six hundred (51,600) square feet of land for the opening and extension of Forty-ninth street and Harmon street, the property of the Wage Earners Loan and Investment Company, from those certain lots of land situate and being in the City of Savannah, County of Chatham, State of Georgia, in Canty ward, and known as lots numbers one (1), three (3), five (5), seven (7), nine (9), eleven (11), thirteen (13), fifteen (15), seventeen (17), nineteen (19), twenty-one (21), twenty-three (23), twenty-five (25), twenty-seven (27), twenty-nine (29), thirty-one (31), thirty-three (33), thirty-five (35), thirty-seven (37), thirtynine (39), forty-one (41), forty-three (43), forty-five (45), forty-seven (47), forty-nine (49), fifty-one (51), fifty-three (53), fifty-five (55) and fifty-seven (57). Resolved further, That Jordan F. Brooks of the City of Savannah, be and he is hereby selected as the assessor to represent the municipal corporation in the said condemnation proceedings, and the Mayor of the City of Savannah is hereby directed, with the assistance of the city attorney, to give the proper notice to the said owner and take all other and further steps necessary to the completion of the condemnation proceedings herein provided for. Adopted and approved, February 23, 1911. Fire Department By the Committee on Fire Resolved, That the Committee on Fire be and it is hereby authorized to purchase for the fire department of the City of 516 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Savannah at a cost not to exceed $4,350, an automobile combination chemical and hose wagon. Adopted and approved, February 23, 1910. Asphalt Blocks By the Finance Committee Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the giving of four (4) promissory notes by the Mayor of the City of Savannah in the name of this municipal corporation to the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, in payment for asphalt blocks in pursuance of the city's contract, the said notes being dated February 4, 1910, and being in the respective sums of $4,508.39, $4,545.90, $9,200.97 and $13,482.69, the first three notes being due January 25, 1911, and the last note being due April 25, 1911, be and it is hereby approved and the said notes ratified. Adopted and approved, February 23, 1910. Charities By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, That the sums named be and they are hereby donated to the institutions named, said sums to be used by them in paying the assessments for street paving against them, said assessments being for the amounts set opposite their names, as follows: Louisa Porter Home... _._.................................. .......$214.15 Savannah Volunteer Guards.............................................. 110.53. Congregation Mickve IsraeL................................ 332.31 Adopted and approved, March 9, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 517 Bonaventure Cemetery By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, That the proposition made by Mr. C. H. Dorsett, in behalf of Mr. Henry Parsons, in his letter to the Mayor of February 28, 1910, covering the purchase by the City of Savannah of eight (8) acres of land, more or less, in Chatham county, east of the right-of-way of the old Savannah and Thunderbolt Railroad Company, and adjoining the Bonaventure Cemetery, be and the same is acceptedthe terms being four hundred (400) dollars per acre, payable by note of the City of Savannah due eighteen (18) months after date and bearing interest from date at the rate of five (5) per cent, per annum, provided the titles are passed by the City Attorney: and the Mayor of the City of Savannah is authorized to give the note of the city covering the purchase money, in the event a satisfactory deed is made. Adopted and approved, March 9, 1910. Ardsley Park Land Corporation By Committee of the Whole Be it resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That the proposition of Lattimore & Lattimore, for Ardsley Park Land Corporation, as embodied in their letter to the Mayor of January 26,1910, be accepted and adopted subject to the proviso that Lattimore & Lattimore finance the proposition by accepting city notes at two and one-half per cent, interest. Adopted and approved, March 23, 1910. 518 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT City Treasurer By Alderman Guckenheimer Resolved, That Rule 17, of the Rules of Council, be and the same is hereby so amended that hereafter the attendance of the city treasurer shall be required during the settings of Council only upon the. requisition of the Mayor. The above resolution was read in Council for the first time, March 9, 1910, and laid on the table until next meeting; taken from the table March 23, 1910. Adopted and approved March 23, 1910. Superintendent Water Works By Committee on Water Resolved, That the sum of one hundred dollars be appropriated towards paying the expenses of J. P. Figg, Superintendent of Water Works, to attend the Water Works Convention at New Orleans from April 25 to 30, 1910, same to be charged to the water works appropriation. Adopted and approved March 2.3, 1910. Advertising By the Committee of the Whole Whereas, the City of Savannah is at this time in a growing and flourishing condition, due largely "to its healthy climate, fine geographical position and numerous commercial advantages; and MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 519 Whereas, these advantages will become sooner and more definitely known through the medium of judicious advertising and the city's future growth will be hastened and measured by the amount of advertising which it receives; and Whereas, the result of such advertisement will be the influx of people and capital which will bring returns to the municipality and her citizens at large; and Whereas, it is proper that all taxpayers should bear some proportion of the expense of an advertising campaign; therefore, be it Resolved, by the Mayor and. Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That for the purpose above mentioned, the City of Savannah agrees hereby to appropriate the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars on condition that a committee representing the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade and the Cotton Exchange secure at least an equal amount from the trade bodies and citizens generally, the fund so formed to be used exclusively for the advertisement of Savannah, and to be expended by a committee the personnel of which shall be approved by the Mayor, and of which the Mayor shall be a member; the chairman of said committee to be Mr. Joseph F. Gray, Vice-President and Executive Officer of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce. Adopted and approved April 20, 1910. Paving Streets By Committee on Streets and Lanes Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Mayor of the City of Savannah is hereby authorized, in behalf of this municipal corporation, to execute the contract made by the Committee 520 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT on Streets and Lanes with the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, dated April 29, 1910, and providing for the purchase by the City of Savannah from the said company of fifty (50,000) thousand square yards of asphalt block at $1.159 per square yard, and also to issue notes of the city in settlement of the purchase money, said notes to be payable during the early part of 1912, and to bear interest from date at the rate of five (5) per cent, per annum. Adopted and approved May 18, 1910. Paving Streets By Committee on Streets and Lanes Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the giving by the Mayor of the City of Savannah, in the name of this municipal corporation, of those two (2) promissory notes, dated May 10, 1910. each in the sum of $11,021.83, due, respectively, April 1, 1911. and July 1, 1911, in pursuance of the city's contract with the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, said notes being payable to the said company and being in payment for asphalt paving blocks, be and the same is hereby fully approved and ratified. Adopted and approved May 18, 1910. Ardsley Park Land Corporation By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the proposition of the Ardsley Park Land Corporation for the widening of Abercorn street from Estill avenue to Fifty-fourth street lane, from its present official width of 75 feet to a width of 105 feet, be and MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 521 the same is hereby accepted, the said proposition being in terms as follows: The Ardsley Park Land* Corporation agreed to deed and warrant to the City of Savannah the necessary land through its property in order to widen Abercorn street from its present official width of seventy-five (75) feet to a width of one hundred and five (105) feet, the street to be divided as follows: Two (2) fifteen (15) foot sidewalks, a twenty-five (25) foot grass plat in the center and two (2) twenty-five foot roadways on either side of said grass plat or parkway, the widening of said street to start at the south side of Estill avenue and to extend to the limits of the holdings of the Ardsley Park Land Corporation at Fifty-fourth (54) street lane, the strip necessary for the widening to be taken from the land to the east of the present official roadway. The municipal corporation agrees to grant permission to the Savannah Electric Company to change its tracks where these tracks strike Thirty-fourth street and to go east through Forty-fourth street to Abercorn street and thence south through the center of the grass plat on Abercorn street to Fiftieth street and thence east through Fiftieth street until they strike the present line of railway, the lines for the extension of the tracks through Fiftieth street to be defined by the city engineer, which lines shall govern; and the city further agrees to curb the grass plats with granite curb at its expense. Adopted and approved June 1, 1910. Central of Georgia Railway Resolution by the Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the plan of the Central of Georgia Railway and the Ocean Steamship Company to 17-A 522 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT improve the water supply for fire service, as shown by map submitted to Council, is approved, subject to the terms and conditions of a contract to be entered into between the City of Savannah and the above named transportation company, which contract shall be approved by Council. Adopted and approved June 15, 1910. Reward By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That a reward be offered by the Mayor of the City of Savannah, in the name of the city, in the sum of two hundred ($200) dollars for the arrest with evidence to -convict of the negro, Buddie Houston, who is charged with having fired the shot which resulted in the death of the late City Court Sheriff, J. W. Mclntire, Jr. Adopted and approved June 29, 1910. Reward By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council ^ssembled, That a reward be offered by the Mayor of the City of Savannah, in the name of the city, in the sum of two hundred ($200) dollars for the arrest, with evidence to convict of the negro, Judge Jones, who fired the shot which resulted in the death of the late patrolman, F. V. Hansen. Adopted and approved June 29, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 523 Rifle Range By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, That the sum of six hundred and twenty ($020) dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to the Savannah Military Rifle Range Association to be used for the construction of a wharf and floating dock in the Vernon River at the Rose Dhu rifle range; provided, the Chatham County Commissioners will agree to pave the White Bluff road extension so as to give a paved thoroughfare from Savannah to the said range and will construct a causeway across the marsh so as to make the range accessible to the City of Savannah by means of wheeled vehicles. Adopted and approved July 13, 1910. Opening Streets By the Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Mayor of the City of Savannah is authorized to convey, in the name of this municipal corporation, to George W. Fawcett, at and for the sum of one hundred and twenty ($120) dollars, the western part of lot forty-four (44) King's subdivision, Norwood ward, in the City of Savannah, Ga., this western part being on the west side of Jefferson street, between Forty-second and Best streets, and the strip containing an average width of four and eight-tenths (4.8) feet by ninety (90) feet, and the- purchase price being at the rate of $25 per front foot. Adopted and approved July 13, 1910. 324 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Opening Streets By Committee on City Lots and Opening Streets Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Committee on Opening Streets is authorized to purchase, if the title be satisfactory to the city attorney, from William G. Gnann, lot twenty-four (24) and the western fifteen (15) feet of lot number twenty-two (22) King's subdivision, Norwood ward, in the City of Savannah, having a frontage of fifty-five (55) feet on Forty-second street, and a rectangular depth of ninety (90) feet, at and for the sum of eighteen hundred ($1,800) dollars, for the opening and extension of Barnard street. Adopted and approved July 13, 1910. Postal Telegraph-Cable Company By Committee on Fire Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled: Whereas, by permission of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company the City of Savannah has some of the wires belonging to the city on the poles of this company in the City of Savannah, and it desires to indemnify the said company as herein expressed. Wherefore, be it resolved: 1. This municipal corporation agrees to hold the said company harmless against any damage or claim of damages resulting from the falling of the city's wires upon wires belonging to the said company, and from accident and dam- MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 5-_>5 age resulting from the contact of the city's wires with the wires belonging to the said company. 2. That a certified copy of this resolution be sent to the said company by Clerk of Council. Adopted and approved July 13, 1910. Central of Georgia Railway Company, Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah By Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That the contract dated July 15, 1910, between Central of Georgia Railway Company, Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah and the Mayor andAldermen of the City of Savannah which was executed on behalf of the city by the Mayor, a copy of which is hereto attached, be and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed and approved, the said contract having been authorized by a resolution of the City Council adopted June 15, 1910. Adopted and approved July 27, 1910. Chatham Land Hotel Company By the Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That the Park and Tree Commission be and they are hereby authorized to proceed with the planting of the center parkway on Estill avenue from Bull street to Waters' road, and on Atlantic avenue from 526 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Baldwin Park to Forty-seventh street, with a double row of palmetto trees, in accordance with the terms set forth in the letter of the Chatham Land Hotel Company, of date July 12, 1910, hereto attached, and the Mayor is authorized to arrange for the payment-of same with notes bearing no interest. Adopted and approved July 27, 1910. Milk By Alderman Barrow Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the Health Officer of the City of Savannah and the Board of Sanitary Commissioners for the City of Savannah are hereby requested to make a report to the Council of the City of Savannah, on or before its next meeting, as to the condition of affairs concerning the milk situation when the milk ordinance of August 11, 1909, was adopted, as this condition was found upon investigation, and in addition to this, and particularly, a complete statement as to the condition of each milk dairy and milk depot at the present time with reference to those matters which the milk ordinance is designed to correct, and that they submit suggestions as to the more complete and effectual accomplishment of the purposes contemplated by the milk ordinance. The Clerk of Council is hereby directed to send at once to the health officer and sanitary board copies of this resolution. Adopted and approved August 10, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 527 Barber Asphalt Paving Company By the Committee of the WholeResolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That the action of the Mayor of Savannah in issuing three promissory notes to the Barber Asphalt Paving Company on July 28, 1910, be and the same is hereby approved; the said notes being issued in pursuance to a contract between the said Company and the City of Savannah, and the said notes being for $8,867.54, $5,464.23 and $6,047.70 and being due, the first two, 18 months after date and the last named 21 months after date, with interest at the rateof five (5) per centum per annum. Adopted and approved August 10, 1910. Ground Rent Lots By Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That the ground rent property set forth and described in the statement of city treasurer entitled: "Owners in arrears for ground rent August 24, 1910," all of which has been re-entered, be sold by the city marshal, at public outcry, to the highest and best bidders, and in the manner provided by ordinance; that fee simple estates be sold in all of said property, and for such sums as will be sufficient to cover all arrearages of ground rent, taxes, costs and unpaid purchase money, with interest, and in the advertisement of said properties such minirnun prices shall be named. Adopted and approved September 7, 1910. 528 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Paving By Committee of the Whole Be it resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That the report of the special committee on Broughton street paving be accepted and adopted and the Streets and Lanes Committee be instructed to present at the next meeting of Council an ordinance for the paving, after restoring this portion of Broughton street, east, to its original grade. Adopted and approved September 7, 1910. Paving By Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That the Mayor of the City of Savannah be and he is hereby authorized to issue, in the name of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, a note for thirty-one thousand two hundred and ten and twenty-five one-hundredths dollars ($31,210.25), due twenty-two months after date, same being in payment to the Barber Asphalt Paving Company of asphalt block, delivered under the terms of the contract between the City of Savannah and said company, dated June 16, 1909. Adopted and approved September 7, 1910. Water Mains By Water Committee Be it resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That a sum not to exceed MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 52it three thousand ($3,000.00) dollars, be and the same is hereby appropriated to be expended for the improvement of water mains and hydrants in order to secure better protection from fire. Adopted and approved September 7, 1910. Thanksgiving Day Football By the Committee of the Whole It having been brought to the attention of this board that the Athletic Associations of the University of Georgia and of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute have under consideration a proposition to play the annual football game on Thaifksgiving Day, November 24, 1910, in Savannah and Whereas, the people of Savannah would be glad to have said game played here and are desirous of having among them members of these student bodies; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That the University of Georgia and the Alabama Polytechnic Institute are, in the name and behalf of the citizens of Savannah, cordially invited to play their annual football game here on Thanksgiving Day; and be it further Resolved, That the Clerk of Council communicate this invitation to the said universities by transmitting to their respective executive heads certified copies of this resolution. Adopted and approved September 21, 1910. 530 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Inviting Honorable Theodore Roosevelt to Visit Savannah By Committee of the Whole Whereas, it has been brought to the attention of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Savannah that the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt will attend the National Conservation Congress in Atlanta, Ga., on October 7 and 8, 1910;and Whereas, the United German Societies of Savannah purpose holding a celebration on October 12, immedtately following said celebration being known as German Day; and * Whereas, the said United German Societies have extended the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt an invitation to come to Savannah on the last named occasion, and Whereas, it is the desire of the people of Savannah that Mr. Roosevelt accept that invitation; now, therefore, be it Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That they do herewith extend a cordial invitation, in the name and behalf of the citizens of Savannah, to the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt to visit Savannah on German Day, October 12, 1910; and, be it further Resolved, That the Acting Mayor be requested to communicate this invitation by telegraph and that the Clerk of Council be directed to send a certified copy thereof to the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Unanimously adopted and approved September 23, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 531 Col. Dan. C. Kingman By Committee of the Whole Whereas, under appropriate legislation by the United States Congress the engineer officer in charge of the Savannah district has made a survey for the purpose of determining the advisability of extending the Savannah harbor project from what is known as the upper limits of the harbor, two miles up the river to King's Island; and Whereas, Col. Dan, C. Kingman, the engineer officer in charge, after making such survey, has submitted his report to the board of engineers and has recommended and approved the proposed improvement; and Whereas, it is manifest that the increased depth proposed to be accomplished between the upper limits of the harbor and King's Island will be of great benefit to the commerce of Savannah and would materially facilitate the maintenance of the present deep water channel opposite the city, and in fact from the upper limits of the harbor to the sea; and Whereas, the greatly increased commerce of the port of Savannah as shown by the Custom House records has amply justified the improvements of the Savannah river and harbor heretofore made by the government, and the steadily increasing commerce of the port at the present time warrants an increase of its harbor facilities and accommodations: therefore be it Resolved, by the Mayor and fAldermen of the City of Savannah, in meeting assembled, That the proposed improvement of the Savannah river between the upper limits of the harbor and King's Island, be and the same is hereby approved, and that a copy of these preambles and resolution be transmitted to the board of engineers now having the matter under consideration, with our request for favorable action of the board. Adopted and approved October 19, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Lighthouses By Committee of the Whole Whereas, It has come to the attention of this board that the Bureau of Lighthouses of the Department of Commerce and Labor contemplate the establishment of a sixth lighthouse inspection district; and Whereas, Savannah is the largest port in the southeastern section of the United States in which section said district is to be established and is the logical point for the installation of such district; be it therefore Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled. That it is proper and desirable that the headquarters of said district be established at Savannah. Ga.; and, be it further Resolved. That our senators and representatives in Congress be and they are hereby urged to present Savannah's claims to the establishment of the headquarters of said district at this point; and be it finally Resolved, That the Clerk of Council be and he is hereby directed to communicate a copy of these resolutions to the said senators and representatives, with the request that they devote their energies in that direction. Adopted and approved November 30, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Death of Alderman Michael J. Kavanaugh By Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That this Council learns with deep regret of the death of Alderman Michael J. Kavanaugh; That the Council attend the funeral in a body; That the public offices of the city be closed during the hours of the funeral, and the flag be placed at half mast; and the City Hall be draped for a period of thirty (30) days; That the Mayor appoint a committee of five of which the Mayor shall be chairman, to prepare and report at a subsequent meeting of Council, suitable resolutions concerning this sad event; And that in respect to his memory, the Council now take a recess until 6 o'clock, this day, when it reassembles for the purpose of paying last the tribute of respect to its deceased member. Adopted by a rising vote and approved December 19, 1910. 534 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Death of Alderman Michael J. Kavanaugh By Special Committee Whereas, Almighty God, in His infinite wisdom, suddenly took from our midst, on December 18, 1910, Michael J. Kavanaugh; and Whereas, from January 21, 1907, to the time of his death, Michael J. Kavanaugh gave valued and efficient services as an alderman of the City of Savannah, serving, during his first term as chairman of the Market Committee, and during the present term as chairman of the Fire Committee, and gave much time and attention to the affairs af the city; and Whereas, this Council is desirous of giving public testimonial of his worth and services to the city, and is desirous of preserving, in permanent form, a record of its appreciation of his services; therefore be it Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled, That the members of this Council deeply deplore the death of their friend and associate, the Hon. Michael J. Kavanaugh; and, be it further Resolved, That in his death the people of Savannah, whom he served with fidelity and ability as an alderman for nearly four years, have lost a faithful and efficient public official and a citizen of sterling integrity and worth; and be it finally MAYO R 'S AN N UAL REPO RT 535 Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of Council, upon a page set apart for that purpose, and that a copy of the same be sent to the family of the deceased. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, . ABE S. GUCKENHEIMER, WILLIAM F. McCAULEY, R. M. HULL, H. E. WILLSON. Adopted and approved December 28, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 537 COMMUHICATIOlfS The following communication from His Honor the Mayor: Savannah, Ga., January 6, 1910. Honorable Board of Aldermen of the City of Savannah. Gentlemen....I beg to advise you that the term of office of Mr. H. W. Witcover as a member of the Board of Managers of the Public Library having expired on December 31, 1909, I did on that date appoint Mr. Witcover for the full term of five years, beginning January, 1910. I ask your confirmation of the appointment. Yours very truly, GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor. The action of the Mayor confirmed January 6, 1910. A communication from his Honor, the Mayor: Savannah, Ga., February 9, 1910. Honorable Board of Aldermen of the City of Savannah. Gentlemen:I have the honor to inform you that I have appointed Mr. Charles S. Ellis as a member of the Park and 538 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Tree Commission to succeed himself for the full term, from January- 1, 1910. I ask your confirmation of the appointment. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor. Action of the Mayor confirmed. Meeting February 9, 1910. A communication from His Honor, the Mayor: Savannah, Ga., January 22, 1910. To the Honorable Board of Aldermen of the City of Savannah. Gentlemen:I beg to advise you that in pursuance to the provisions of the resolution adopted at the meeting of City Council on the 12th inst. I have appointed the following gentlemen as a special committee to prepare a pamphlet on the subject of the proposed extension of the house drainage system of the city: The Mayor, as chairman; Aldermen Barrow, Wilson. Kavanaugh and Guckenheimer. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor. Action of the Mayor confirmed. Meeting February 9, 1910. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 539 The following communication from the Savannah Cotton Exchange : Savannah .Ga., January 28, 1910. To the Honorable, the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, Savannah, Ga. Gentlemen:I am directed by President Bell of the Savannah Cotton Exchange to forward to you the enclosed document conveying the sentiment of the Savannah Cotton Exchange as expressed through its members in favor of the issuance by the city of bonds for $350,000 for the sole purpose of providing house drainage necessary for the preservation of the health of the city, within the present city limits. Commending this to your favorable consideration, I am, very respectfully, J. J. GAUDRY, Secretary and Superintendent. Received as information and referred to special House Drainage Committee. Meeting February 9, 1910. A communication from the Savannah Board of Trade, by Thomas Purse, Secretary, to take steps to secure a Kiosk for the weather bureau on one of the squares on Bull street. Referred to Committee of the Whole. Received as information and the effort of the Board of Trade be approved. The ayes and nays were called on the adoption of the above. AyesAldermen Battey, Barrow, Entelman, Gaudry, Meinhard, McCauley-, Wilkinson and Wilson8. Nays Aldermen Guckenheimer, Gordon and Kavanaugh3. 540 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT Alderman Guckenheimer wanted his position made clear, that he voted against the resolution because he did not know what a Kiosk was and he thought he ought to know before he voted on it. The following communication from A. R. Lawton, executor, was read: March 9, 1910. Honorable the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah Gentlemen:In pursurance of certain conferences had with His Honor the Mayor with reference to the improvement of the tract of land in Lawton and Watson wards at Bull street and Estill avenue, belonging to the estate of A. R. Lawton, 1 submit for your consideration the following suggestion and proposition: The heirs had expected to hold this tract indefinitely for the increased value and had no intention of changing, improving, or placing on the market any of it. The improvements, however, on the Granger tract and the Lattimore tract will leave this property standing alone and unimproved on the way to both of them from the center of the city. The improvement at the same time of the Lawton tract will add much to the appearance of the new southern section and will be of general benefit to the community. Under these circumstances all interested in this property are unwilling to stand in the way of so desirable a consummation, and would like to improve it, provided the city will furnish water, sewers and grading on reasonable terms. Little or no additional grading will be required because it is substantially all provided for in the Lattimore and Granger contracts. I submit herewith for your consideration the following proposition: MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 541 FirstThe owners will remove all present improvements from the property, lay the necessary sidewalks, plat the property in lots, and generally place it in good and sightly condition, ready for sale to prospective purchasers of lots. SecondWe will refund to the city the twelve hundred recently paid in the city's notes as an allowance for the removal of the present buildings which encroach upon the lines of Abercorn street and Forty-fourth street as recently acquired by the city. ThirdWe will convey to the city for street purposes sufficient land for a lane between Estill avenue and Fortyfourth street from the eastern end of the property to the rightof-way of the Savannah Electric Company, thence (adjacent and parallel to said right of way) to the short diagonal street from Bull street to Estill avenue recently acquired by the city; this lane to be in prolongation of and of the same width as the corresponding lane acquired under the Granger contract. FourthWe will finance for the city on terms satisfactory to the Mayor, the city's twelve-months' note for such part of the cost of the water mains and sewers as is incurred by the city by reason of this contract; that is to say, such portion of the work as would not be done by the city as a part of its general scheme without reference to this contract; this amount to be determined by agreement between the Mayor and the undersigned. There should be an equitable adjustment on account of this financing of the city's note and refund of the twelve hundred dollars as above stated (now included in the city's notes) with such offsetting of the one against the other as may be satisfactory to the Mayor. FifthIn consideration whereof, the city shall promptly so extend its water mains and sewers into the adjoining streets and lanes thus acquired as to permit convenient and economical connection therewith for the entire tract. 342 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT As my reason for making this proposition is the desire for immediate improvement of the property, and possibly the immediate offering of lots therein for sale, prompt action is desirable, and I respectfully submit the matter for your immediate consideration. Yours very respectfully, (Signed) A. R. LAWTON, Executor. In accordance with the above the following resolution was adopted and approved: Resolved, by the MaVor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, in Council assembled. That the proposition of A. R. Lawton, executor, set forth in his letter of March 9, 1910, to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah hereunto annexed, with reference to the improvement to the tract of land in Lawton and Watson wards, at Bull street and Estill avenue, belonging to the estate of A. R. Lawton, be and the same is hereby accepted, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement in behalf of the City of Savannah carrying out this acceptance. Adopted and approved. The following communication from Mr. John K. Culver was read: Savannah, Ga., February 23, 1910. Mr. J. H. H. Entelman, Chairman Committee Opening Streets, Savannah, Ga. Dear Sir:I hereby offer to deed to the City of Savannah the following described property needed for the opening of MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT . 543 streets: All the land owned by John K. Culver in the bed of Reynolds street from Anderson street to the south line of Millen farm lot No. 11; the bed of Randolph street from Anderson street to the southern line of Millen farm lot No. 10; the bed of Thirty-sixth street from the west line of Millen farm lot No. 10 to the eastern line of Millen farm lot No. 6; all the land in the bed of Thirty-sixth street not heretofore deeded or under contract of sale, from the western line of Millen farm lot No. 11 to the east line of Millen farm lot No. 6; all the land in the bed of Thirty-fourth street not heretofore deeded or under contract of sale, from the west line of Millen farm lot No. 11 to the east line of Millen farm lot No. to ; also the land needed for the opening of Paulsen street from the south line of Millen farm lot No. 6 to the north side of Thirty-fourth street; also the bed of Vine and Grove streets, from the north side of Thirty-fourth street to Anderson street. The following named streets in Hull ward: Waldburg, Bolton, Gwinnett and Hall streets from Waters' road to the eastern line of Eastville, Live Oak street from the south line of Eastville to Hall street, except that heretofore deeded or under contract for sale. Provided, however, the city will agree to extend the city water mains, during the summer of 1910,.south on Reynolds street from the present main to Thirty-sixth street and east on Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streets to Paulsen streets; north on Paulsen street from Thirty-sixth street to Thirty-fourth street; north on Vine and Grove streets from Thirty-fourth to Anderson street; north on Randolph street from Thirty-sixth to Anderson street; north on Reynolds street from the present main to Anderson street. Also extend the mains from the Waters' road to the eastern line of Eastville through Waldburg, Gwinnett and Hall streets. Also condemn or otherwise purchase the land necessary to complete the opening of the streets above described, grade them, and provide suitable drainage for them. All the above to be completed within one year from the acceptance of this offer. The only land that it would be necessary to condemn or otherwise purchase to carry out the above described plan is 85x100 544 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT feet on the west side of Reynolds street, 60x100 feet on the east of Reynolds street, and 50x100 feet on Live Oak street, Hull ward. Yours truly, (Signed) JOHN K. CULVER. In accordance with the above the following resolution was adopted and approved: By Committee of the Whole Resolved, by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah in Council assembled, That the proposition of John K. Culver, as outlined in the agreement submitted by him of date the 23rd day of February, 1910, which is hereto attached and made part of this resolution, be and the same is hereby accepted by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, with the understanding, however, that all drainage therein referred to shall be open drainage and that the laying of water mains from Waters' road to the eastern boundary of Eastville shall be done within eighteen months from the date of the above mentioned agreement hereto attached, and the Mayor of the City of Savannah is authorized to execute on behalf of the City of Savannah the said agreement with the said John K. Culver. Adopted and approved March 9, 1910. A communication from sundry Greeks by George Peters, chairman, asking Council to review parade while passing City Hall. Invitation accepted April 6, 1910. MAYOR'S AXNUAL REPORT 545 Assistant City Treasurer The following communication from His Honor the Mayor was read: Savannah, Ga., March 29, 1910. Honorable Board of Aldermen of the City of Savannah: Gentlemen:Pursuant to the provisions of the ordinance creating the position of assistant city treasurer I have the honor to appoint upon the recommendation of the Committee on Finance, Captain G. B. Pritchard as Assistant City Treasurer. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor. Action of the Mayor confirmed April 6, 1910. \ The following communication from His Honor the Mayor was read: Savannah, Ga., March 28, 1910. Honorable Board of Aldermen, Savannah Ga. Gentlemen:Pursuant to the action of Council at its meeting on the 23rd instant I have the honor to appoint Aldermen Gordon, Battey and Wilkinson as a committee on automobile licenses, the Mayor being ex-officio a member. Yours very truly, GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mayor. Action of the Mayor confirmed April 6, 1910. u 546 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT A communication from his Honor, the Mayor, was read, received as information and ordered to be published with the proceedings. Savannah, Ga., October 18, 1910. To the Honorable Board of Aldermen of the City of Savannah: Gentlemen:As the extension of the plan of the city through the holdings of the Chatham Land and Hotel Company and the Ardsley Park Land Corporation has practically been completed, requiring about $10,000 to actually complete the work, I desire to submit an analysis of these undertakings, showing the method of financing them and the resultant benefits to the city therefrom. In this work notes have been issued, extending over a period of years, to the amount of $142,830.95, and probably it will require $10,000 more to complete the work contemplated therein. The notes issued to the Chatham Land and Hotel Company and to the Ardsley Park Land Corporation are the outcome of a new policy/ suggested by me to City Council, by which, instead of the city paying property owners by notes with interest for the area required for streets, lanes and parks and later again paying for grading, water mains and sewerage, the city contracted to extend the plan of the city through the property offered, provided the streets, lanes and parks were donated free of cost. This policy is a distinct departure from the old one which prevailed here for many years, under which the city would purchase streets, lanes and parks as they thought were required, and issued notes in payment therefor, usually at 5 per cent, per annum;and then, later on, had to undergo the additional expense of extending the plan of the city, in order to make the area acquired suitable for residential purposes and in order to increase the taxable value thereof. Under the old plan the city paid for its grading, MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 547 water mains and sewers and also paid for the streets and lanes through which they were laid, whereas, under the new policy, the city pays for its grading, water mains and sewers, provided the streets, lanes and necessary parks are donated. As a result'of the old plan, when I assumed the duties of the Mayor of the city, there were notes of the city outstanding to the 'amount of $192,145.35, issued prior to my adminstration in purchase of streets, lanes and parks for purposes of opening them, of which $50,255.42 are still payable during 1911 to 1910, inclusive. When completed, the city will have issued notes for the extension of the plan of the city through Chatham and Ardsely Park properties, namely: grading, water mains and sewers, to the sum of $152,830.95, and ^n consideration of these permanent improvements being placed through them, have received deeds for 2,580,000 square feet from the Chatham Land and Hotel Company (exclusive of area sold previous to my adminstration to the city) and from the Ardsley Park Land Corporation 1,382,365 square feet originally and, later, about 75,000 square feet additional for widening Abercorn street to 105 feet, making a grand total of 4,137,305 square feet. The notes issued therefor to the Chatham Land and Hotel Company run an average of four years and draw no interest whatever, so that it is equivalent to the city not paying for these permanent improvements for four years, by which time it is a mathematical certainty that the increased taxable value of the land alone, because of these improvements and without figuring upon the erection of new buildings, which is also certain, will much more than carry interest on this outlay. In the Ardsley Park contract the city allowed 2^ per cent, interest on the notes to run from one to five years and that amount, estimated nof to exceed $3,000, was allowed in consideration of their deeding an extra 35 feet on Bull street 548 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT to Fifty-fourth street to widen it to 75 feet for half a mile, or about 87,500 square feet on Bull street, or nearly 3> cents for Bull street frontage per square foot, as against 20 cents to 50 cents per square foot paid years ago for Bull street south of Andersen street. * Upon an average valuation of five cents per square foot for all of this area, good, bad and indifferent, the city received deeds to 4,137,365 square feet, which, at 5 cents, equals $206,868.25, because it made permanent improvements in extension of grading, water supply and sewerage amounting to $152,830.95 to be paid for about four years later, by which time the revenue therefrom will produce a good rate of interest; or, to put it another way, because the city spent this sum in city extension a few years in advance, without any interest cost to the city, except the $3,000 referred to, which sum would have to be expended sooner or later, the city received $206,868.25 of streets, lanes and parks; but of this sum expended in these extensions, $85,809.34 is for a large storm sewer, including catch basins and laterals running from Waters' road and Fiftieth street across Abercbrn street and which will be connected with Bull street and which was built sufficiently large to take care of the storm sewerage from Fiftieth street, north, from east to west, when all necessary connections thereto are made. That sewer having been enlarged to serve all of that territory other than the area of these two corporations, and being in the nature of a general .improvement beneficial to all of that section from a sanitary standpoint especially, and being a part of the general sewerage, and as such a sewer would have become necessary sooner or later, it is fair and reasonable to say that it should not be considered a charge against these two contracts. If that view is taken, then the city spent in grading and water extensions in these two properties $67,021.61 and received $206,868.25 of streets, lanes and parks. Another consideration which was a part of the contract for the work done in the Ardsley Park property was the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT o4) removal of about 220 negro tenements in what was known as Sunnyside, which character of property was a bar to that section for residential purposes and was, more or less, a menance from a sanitary standpoint. This city has paid prior to my adminstration for streets lanes and parks south of Anderson to Fortieth street (an area of about 370 acres, as compared to 380 acres in the Chatham and Ardsley tracts) under the former policy of purchase, the sum of $575,000, exclusive of interest on the notes given therefor and which usually run many years and of which I found when I became Mayor $192,145, and of which $50,255 are still due from 1911 to 1916, inclusive, and even with that expenditure the city does not own all necessary streets in that area; and, of course, after the purchase of these streets they later on extended grading, water mains and sewerage at its additional cost to the city; whereas, under the contract with the Chatham Land and Hotel Company and the Ardsley Park and Land Corporation the city spent $67,021.61 for grading and for water mains in their tract and $85,809.34 for sewerage sufficient to care for that area and also all of the adjacent territory as it will be connected up, and settled forever the acquisition of streets, lanes and parks to the southern limits of the city from Estill avenue to Fiftieth street; east of Bull street, comprising an area of one mile by a half of a mile and being 380 acres, included therein being the widening of Bull street to Fifty-fourth street, or two blocks beyond the city limits, and also the acquisition of twelve parks and five parkways. Under the terms of a contract made prior to my first term as Mayor, the city was obligated to the widening of Estill avenue to 100 feet, and of the $28,413.60 notes for opening streets, the major portion was paid to the Lawton estate for fifty feet on Estill avenue to Bull, street and for a part of Abercorn street, for a part of Forty-fourth street and a street between Estill avenue and Bull street to avoid the crossing of the Atlantic Coast Line tracks in going from one avenue to the other. 550 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT It has always been the policy of the city to issue notes for opening streets purposes, and instead of continuing the policy of buying streets, except where an obstruction may make it necessary, these streets have been obtained by putting improvements through them and paying nothing for the streets, but giving notes for the cost of improvement for an average of four years, without interest, except in one case where 2^ per cent, was allowed, as stated. Owners of property west of Bull street from Fortysecond street to the city's southern limits are now wanting from 10 to 40 cents per square foot for land desirable for street and lane purposes and as that territory is about 267 acres as against 380 acres in the Chatham and Ardsley tracts and the city would have to acquire 2,471,962" square feet to open up all the streets and lanes necessary through that area, it is easily figured that at 10 cents, the lowest price named, those property owners are wanting $247,196 for their street rights, in addition to which your city system would eventually have to be extended at the expense of the city through this right of way for which the owners ask this large sum. In addition to the considerations mentioned, the Chatham Land and Hotel Company obligated itself to convey to the city free of charge a large tract of land to be used as a park, in the event a $300,000 hotel is not built upon such tract within a specified time. Moreover, the Chatham Land and Hotel Company obligates itself to donate $7,000.00 towards the erection of a pumping station at such time as the city extends its house drainage system through its property. It must also be borne in mind that both the Chatham Land and Hotel Company and the Ardsley Park Land Corporation have, under their contracts, beautified at their own expense the entire property, laid sidewalks and curbing throughout and are undergoing the expense of planting the entire area with shade trees. These conditions have not MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 551 prevailed in the past, the city having heretofore to do this work largely at its own expense. To summarize: FirstInstead of the city under its former policy purchasing the streets, lanes and parks through these tracts and paying for them about $200,000 by issuing notes therefor, drawing 5 per cent, per annum interest, and later spending over $150,000 for the extension of city equipment, it will have issued notes for $67,021.61 for grading and water mains in Chatham and Ardsley tracts and for $85,809.34 for a sewerage system adequate for that entire section south of Estill avenue, east and west (no interest thereon, except as stated), and against which liability and in consideration of these improvements it has received deeds free of cost for streets, lanes, twelve parks and five parkways, valued at $206,868.25, or, reduced to acres, about ninety-five acres, and, reduced to lots of a size equal to ten to the acre, 950 lots. SecondAs compared with the area west of Bull Street and south of Forty-second street (267 acers, against 380 in the Chatham and Ardsley tracts) over $250,000 is asked for street rights alone, and then the city would again pay the cost of grading, water and sewerage. ThirdAs compared with the area between Anderson and Fortieth streets (about 370 acres, .against 380 acres in the Chatham and Ardsley tracts), the city paid $575,000 and also paid for grading, water and sewerage. In conclusion, I hope that the policy as to acquiring new streets, adopted by this adminstration, will be adhered to in the future, viz: To extend the plan of the city over area where the streets and lanes are donated; for when a taxpayer has property which has been subjected to city taxes by extension of the city limits and, in order to secure city conveniences, offers to deed the streets, lanes and parks necessary for the MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT proper subdivision of the property, it is, in my opinion, the duty of the city to furnish them; for the city cannot equitably take his taxes and decline to accede to such a proposal. Very Respectfully, GEORGE W. TIEDEMAN, Mavor. The following communication from the Georgia Medical Society, by Dr. J. M. Sigman, Secretary, was read and received as information, October 19, 1910. Communication notifying Council that at a meeting of said society a committee consisting of Dr. T. J. Charlton, chairman; Drs. George R. White, Jabez Jones and J. L. Hiers was appointed to appear before Council relative to the completion of the house drainage system. Oglethorpe Monument Savannah Ga., November 10, 1910. Mayor and Aldermen, City of Savannah. Dear Sirs:On the occasion of the unveiling of the Oglethorpe monument on the morning of the 23rd inst. seats will be reserved for the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, and, on behalf of the commission, I have the honor to invite you to join with us in the ceremonies on that occasion. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 533 This invitation is intended to include also the heads of the various departments of the city government. Will you kindly arrange to have me advised by the morning of the 21st how many seats will be needed to accommodate the representatives of the city. Very truly yours, J. RANDOLPH ANDERSON, Chairman Oglethorpe Monument Commission. Accepted with thanks, November 1(>, 1910. The following communication from the Georgia Medical Society was read and received as information: Savannah, Ga., December 14, 1910. In view of the good work accomplished by the Health Department during the past year, we, The Georgia Medical Society, do herewith express our appreciation, commending the work done, and urging its continuance. The Bacteriological Laboratory and the new milk regulations we desire to specially commend as making a splendid advance in the line of civic betterment and the health of our community. We would recommend that these departments, now established, be given all encouragement and advanced to fully meet all demands made upon them. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Mayor and Council with the offer of this society to co-operate with and support all work done for the health of our city. (Signed) THOMAS J. CHARLTON, President Georgia Medical Society. J. M. Sigman, Secretary Georgia Medical Society. MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT 555 REPORTS Savannah, Ga., January 4, 1910. Council met, pursuant to call of the Mayor, at 3 o'clock p. m. Present: Honorable George W. Tiedeman, Mayor, presiding; Alderman A. S. Guckenheimer, Chairman of Council; Aldermen Entelman, Gaudry, Gordon, Hull, Kavanaugh, Wilkmson and Wilson. Council adjourned to attend funeral of late Alderman Abram Vetsburg. After the funeral Council took a recess, subject to the call of the chair. N. P. CORISH, Clerk of Council. Savannah, Ga., January 6, 1910. Council met, pursuant to call of the Mayor, at 4 o'clock p. m. Present: Honorable George W. Tiedeman, Mayor, presiding; Alderman A. S. Guckenheimer, Chairman of Council; Alderman W. F. McCauley, Vice-Chairman of Council; Aldermen Battey, Barrow, Entleman, Gaudry, Gordon, Hull, Kavanaugh and Wilson. His Honor, the Mayor, called the attention of Council to the vacancy caused by the death of Alderman Vetsburg and suggested that steps be taken to fill the vacancy. Alder- 556 MAYOR'S ANXUAL REPORT man Guckenheimer nominated Mr. Henry S Meinhard and Alderman Gaudrv seconded same and the clerk was authorized to cast a ballot and Mr. Meinhard were unanimously elected an alderman. The Mayor and following committee was authorized to draft resolutions on the death of Alderman Vetsburgcommittee appointed in accordance with the above: His Honor, the Mayor, Aldermen Battey, Hull, Kavanaugh and Wilson.